Outcome of live-born infants in Barbados requiring neonatal care, before and after the introduction of a neonatal intensive care unit - abstract

A review of the outcome of neonatal care over a 72-month period (November, 1987 - October, 1993) was retrospectively analysed. The study looked at the changing trends of survival, as influenced by the development of a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in November, 1990. During the study period, 4,838 neonatal admissions were analysed; 57 percent were pre-NICU and 42.5 percent post-NICU. Significantly more babies were ventilated in the post-NICU era (p