RT Book, Section
A1 Gomella, Tricia Lacy
A1 Eyal, Fabien G.
A1 Bany-Mohammed, Fayez
SR Print(0)
ID 1168355965
T1 Management of the Late Preterm Infant
T2 Gomella's Neonatology: Management, Procedures, On-Call Problems, Diseases, and Drugs, 8e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259644818
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1168355965
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  most  commonly  agreed  upon  definition  of  a  late  preterm  infant  is  an  infant  born  between  34  0/7  and  36  6/7  weeks’  gestation.  Older  literature  refers  to  these  infants  as  near  term,  suggesting  that  they  are  equivalent  to  term  infants.  Approximately  10  years  ago,  the  term  late  preterm  was  introduced  into  the  medical  literature  to  convey  an  appropriate  sense  of  these  infants’  vulnerability  and  increased  risk  for  both  short-  and  long-term  complications.  Since  2007,  >500  articles  about  late  preterm  infants  have  been  published,  underscoring  the  increased  risk  of  morbidity  and  mortality  compared  to  term  infants.