Perinatal mortality

baby’s health but it can also help the couple to conceive. If the woman is overweight or underweight this can have a impact on the chance of her falling pregnant. Poor diet has increased risks to the baby which include low birth weight and infant mortality. Baby’s that are born with a low birth weight also are at high risk of childhood illness and other conditions e.g. visual impairment, hearing problems, neuro developmental delay and behaviour disorders. They may also show less development of…

Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the leading chronic, lifelong condition worldwide. DM can cause high rates of morbidity and mortality due to complications associated with the disorder. DM is characterized by hyperglycemia due to a lack of insulin, insulin resistance, or can be consisted of both. The four main types of diabetes mellitus include type 1 diabetes mellitus, type 2 diabetes mellitus, gestational diabetes mellitus, and other specific types (Darby, 2015, 824). A high…

have played a very essential role on the U.S. healthcare system since the 1960’s. It was the biggest change in health care that the citizens of the U.S. have ever seen. Medicare was designed While the union between short term exposure to PM2.5 and mortality was higher among Medicare enrollees that had a previous allowance for diabetes and neurological tumult than among Medicare enrollees that did not had a anterior admission for these diseases, the effect modification was not statistically…

Gestational Diabetes Molloy College Samantha Bishop and Morgan Woods Gestational Diabetes Gestational diabetes (GDM) is defined as glucose intolerance, by any degree, with its beginning or first recognition happening during pregnancy. GDM encompasses women who have had preexisting diabetes that had not been diagnosed until pregnancy and woman whose intolerance to glucose emerges during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes differs from type 1 or type 2 diabetes in women that get pregnant. The…

Cerebral Palsy is a disability that affects a child for life. A child who is diagnosed with this disability has until the age of two for a complete diagnosis. Some children are born with this while others receive this diagnosis several months after birth. When being diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy mostly only the child’s brain is affected. This disorder results in several issues with the developing nervous system. These exact issues in the nervous system have yet to be found in clinical findings.…

and development, quality and patient safety, and patient and family experience. These councils will be composed of smaller groups in which members will represent a broader scope than their own unit. In addition, the hospital recently received the perinatal certification awarded to them by The Joint Commission. The preceptor I was shadowing is the Labor and Delivery manager in Valley Hospital. In this department they practice a high degree of nurses autonomy, nurses control of practice,…

C-section. "The increased level of fetal surveillance has led to increased rates of intrapartum cesarean delivery for presumed abnormalities in fetal status, but the use of electronic monitoring has not been shown to improve the overall rate of perinatal mortality or cerebral palsy...," according to The Journal of the American Medical Association. This means that we continue to cling to fetal heart monitoring machines when it shows no clear improvement in outcomes of pregnancy, it has become a…

No matter how small a human is, every being deserves chance to be treated. Fetal surgery has been introduced and developed rapidly over the past decades. It has become an important way to save and provide a good quality of life for the unborn children. Over the years several approaches have been developed for conducting fetal surgery, depending on patient’s condition and the best ways to repair the abnormality in the uterus. As other medical interventions, fetal surgery has its risks and…

Does Your Age Really Matter? Many women say age is nothing but a number; meaning their age has no effect on their physical condition. However, this saying is not completely true because age has a significant effect on women trying to become pregnant or already pregnant. Many women dream of the day when they can bring a child into the world and experience the blessing of creating life inside them. This amazing phenomenon is one of the happiest moments in a woman’s life. Yet pregnancy is not…

Preterm delivery is a terrible problem that plagues the United States, as well as many other countries worldwide. Preterm delivery of infants remains one of the most intractable problems that contributes to perinatal morbidity and mortality (Slattery & Morrison, 2002). This issue contributes to a large amount of cost towards the health industry. The definition of preterm delivery is, “…those [deliveries] that occur at less than 37 weeks’ gestational age; however, the low-gestational…