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Naser Abulgasim Elkabir
Alwakra Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar
Keynote: J Nurs Res Pract
Post-term infants are born at a gestational age >42 weeks or 294 days from the 1st day of the last menstrual period. Post-term infants have higher rates of morbidity and mortality than term infants. Risk factors for post-term births include the following: Prim gravida, prior post-term pregnancy, and genetic predisposition as a concordance for post-term pregnancy is higher in monozygotic than dizygotic twin mothers, maternal obesity, older maternal age, and male fetal gender. We are presenting a case of newborn infant delivered at post-term 47 weeks (post conception age) who was born through thick meconium stained liquor delivery showed sever skin peeling. He needed respiratory ventilation since birth and his brain magnetic resonance imaging was abnormal. This report aims to raise awareness among obstetric-gynecology and neonatologists about complications of post maturity and to put a plan to deliver these babies before reaching 42 weeks gestation.
Naser Abulgasim Elkabir is working as Neonatology Specialist at NICU Alwakra Hospital Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha/Qatar..
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