Introduction:

in Cuba, surgical newborn intensive care evolution has come up with the creation of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. For the first time, newborns´ quality care has made a meaningful change in our health service quality.

Objective:

to figure out historical evolution characteristics of newborns´ surgical attention in Pediatric Surgery, since 1970 until nowadays.

Method:

we used the logical historical method, sistemic approach and stages of neonatal caring process.

Results:

in Cuba, since the 1970’s four surgical newborn caring process stages were identified: beginning (1970), strenghening (1980), new strategics (1990). Since 2000, the updates and visualizations also determined this trend.

Conclusions:

previous stages define the surgical process newborns´ medical care inside Pediatric Surgery, in Cuba. We identified the following: Stage 1: 1970-1979 Beginning, stage 2: 1980-1989 Strenghening of medical attention to surgical newborn. Stage 3: 1990-1999 new medical attention strategics to the surgical newborn. Stage 4: 2000-2018 Current proyections of medical attention to the surgical newborn.

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