Abstract

ALVAREZ PONCE, Vivian; MUNIZ RIZO, Milagros; ALVAREZ SANCHEZ, Aleida Z.  and  MARTINEZ CAMILO, Rodolfo Valentín. Análisis de la mortalidad infantil en el Hospital Ginecoobstétrico Docente de Guanabacoa: Estudio de 3 años. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2002, vol.74, n.2, pp.122-126. ISSN 0034-7531.

A retrospective analysis of the infant mortality in the Teaching Gynecological and Obstetric Hospital in Guanabacoa from January 1997 to December 1999 was conducted. The infant mortality rate in these 3 years was 3,8 per 1000 live births. 1999 exhibited the best result with a rate of 1.8 per 1000 live births. The early neonatal component was 3,1 per 1000 live births (22 deaths) representing 81,7% of the total deaths whereas the late neonatal component was 0,4 per 1000 live births, with 3 deaths, which represented 11,1% of the total number of dead infants. Postneonatal mortality rate was favorable with only 2 deceased for a rate of 0,3 per 1000 live births. It was found that 25,9% of deaths was caused by sepsis followed by asphyxia and malformations with 22,2% respectively. There were only 2 deaths caused by hyaline membrane in 1997 accounting for 7,4% of deaths.

Keywords : INFANT MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; SEPSIS; ASPHYXIA NEONATORIUM; ABNORMALITIES; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES [mortality].