Abstract
Babies of birth weight less than 1000 g (ELBW) often pose a heavy burden on available facilities in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) the world over. Reports from various countries show that survival rates among this category of babies still remain relatively low. In a previous report from Afif General Hospital the 28-day survival rate among ELBW babies was 30% but within this category there was no survival among the subset of birth weight less than 750 g. Anecdotal evidence seems to suggest an increase in the proportion of these babies born in this hospital in recent times and a cursory inspection appeared to show a higher incidence compared to data from an earlier audit by Al Faraidy et al. pooled from other hospitals in Saudi Arabia. The authors therefore set out in this report to determine the circumstances related to the delivery of this group of babies in this hospital during the six-year period from January 1992 to December 1997 paying particular attention to possible trends and other time-related changes. (excerpt)
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