晚期早产儿护理多学科指南

Of the 500,000 premature babies born each year in the United States, nearly 75% - or 375,000 - of them are born at 34 0/7 through 36 6/7 weeks of gestational age (GA). These infants are referred to as “late preterm infants” (LPI) by many who publish research and commentaries about their care, including the consensus panel at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).1 Late preterm infants are physiologically and metabolically immature at the time of birth, often lacking the self-regulatory ability to respond appropriately to the extra-uterine environment. Despite their appearance as small but “normal” babies, LPIs have higher rates of morbidity and mortality than their term counterparts, not only during birth hospitalization, but also throughout the first year after birth and beyond.

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