Risk Factors in Neonatal Intensive Care
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Pediatrics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 12
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Interests: neonatology; neonatal outcome; neonatal resuscitation; preterm infants; mechanical ventilation; maternal child; resuscitation; nosocomial infection; maternal pathology; newborn at risk
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Dear Colleagues,
Fortunately, 90% of newborns do not need resuscitation in the delivery room. However, the rest need help during the transition to extrauterine life.
Newborns at risk are a special group in need of neonatal intensive care.
The categories of newborns at risk are represented by the following:
- Premature newborns, especially below 32 weeks of gestation;
- Newborns with intrauterine growth restriction;
- Newborns with birth asphyxia;
- Newborns requiring respiratory support;
- Newborns with malformations (CNS, cardiac, digestive, respiratory, etc.);
- Newborns with Rh isoimmunization;
- Newborns with infections;
- Newborns from families with precarious socio-economic conditions, from non-survey pregnancies (disorganized families, poverty, etc.);
- Newborns from mothers with diabetes, pre-eclampsia, or other severe pathologies.
Admission to intensive care means separation from the mother, with the mother–child contact being more restrictive. In these cases, the newborn will undergo a large number of invasive or less invasive procedures.
Therefore, the risks related to newborns being admitted to neonatal intensive care is a topic that remains within the scope of neonatologists, practitioners, and researchers, with its importance being represented by the effect on a newborn’s prognosis.
Prof. Dr. Gabriela C. Zaharie
Dr. Melinda Matyas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neonatal intensive care
- infant birth
- preterm
- neonatal resuscitation
- neonatal outcome
- growth restriction
- prenatal diagnosis
- severe maternal pathology and its effects on a newborn
- therapeutical hypothermia
- parenteral nutrition
- neonatal infection
- retinopathy of prematurity
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