Guest Editor’s Preface: Normal Infant or Sick Newborn: The Challenge of Evaluating an Infant in the Emergency Department

There are about 3,900,000 babies born in the United States every year.1 The vast majority of babies will require no medical care or intervention, but all of them will be thoroughly evaluated before discharge from the newborn nursery. About 10% of infants require limited help in the delivery room, with only 1% requiring significant support.2,3 Just after delivery, most infants quickly transition to routine postdelivery care which consists of being dried, warmed, and placed with the infant’s mother.

Source: Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine - April 17, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Patrick J. Myers Source Type: research