Background Globally, three fourth of neonatal deaths occur during the early neonatal period,
this makes it a critical time to reduce the burden of neonatal death. The survival status of a …

There is no doubt that parturition can produce fetal and neonatal adversity, but the frequency
with which this occurs is uncertain, particularly in modern healthcare settings. Moreover …

Fetal movement is an important clinical indicator to assess fetus growth and development
status in the uterus. In recent years, a noninvasive intelligent sensing fetal movement …

Background The 5-minute APGAR score is clinically used as a screening tool to assess how
the newborn has reacted to previous care, remaining relevant for predicting neonatal …

Background Globally, approximately 9 million neonates develop perinatal asphyxia annually
of which about 1.2 million die. Majority of the morbidity and mortality occur in Low and …

Background Annually, 30 million women in Africa become pregnant, with the majority of
deliveries taking place at home without the assistance of skilled healthcare personnel. In …

Objective To describe trends in perinatal loss across Brazil, a country that transitioned in
2006 from a lower-middle income to an upper-middle income country, from 2000 to 2019 …

Objectives: to analyze the risks of deaths in the first 24 hours of life and their preventable
causes. Methods: cross-sectional study carried out in Pernambuco, Northeast of Brazil …

Introduction Perinatal asphyxia is failure to maintain normal breathing at birth. World Health
Organization indicates that perinatal asphyxia is the third major cause of neonatal mortality …

Objective This article aimed to report a temporal series of respiratory distress syndrome
(RDS)-associated neonatal mortality rates in preterm live births in São Paulo state, Brazil …