noun
definition
A premature birth or baby.
adjective
definition
Of a premature birth or baby.
Examples of preterm in a Sentence
There is diverse opinion and a lack of consensus about management of preterm birth due to the lack of clinical and scientific data.
This changed dramatically with the administration of supplemental oxygen to preterm infants in the late 1940s.
Very low birthweight infants with clinical seizures have a higher incidence of impairment than preterm infants without seizures 34.
Pregnant women infected with syphilis are also at increased risk for miscarriage, preterm labor, and stillbirth.
However there is no proof that routine intubation of all very preterm babies leads to decreased morbidity.
Many of the surviving preterm infants suffer serious morbidity.
The estimate was that cost savings of $ 3000 per treated neonate in intensive care resulted from the use of preterm steroids.
For example the MAC in preterm neonates for halothane is 0.87 percent compared to 1.20 in older infants.
Designed to fortify breast milk to meet the extra nutritional needs of low birth weight preterm infants.
Today, we care for extremely preterm babies that simply didn't survive back then.
To assist in a respiratory function study in a new cohort of infants born extremely preterm.
This case was also complicated by preterm delivery and successful delayed-interval birth in a quadruplet pregnancy.
Potential risk of needed bed rest due to possible preterm labor contractions or other complications.
While about 50 percent of twins are born prematurely, more than 90 percent of triplets are born preterm.
Neonatal jaundice affects 60 percent of full-term infants and 80 percent of preterm infants in the first three days after birth.
Abnormal jaundice can be dangerous, particularly in preterm or unhealthy newborns.
However, jaundice in a preterm baby may require intensive care.
J., et al. "Antibody response to diphtheriatetanus-pertussis immunization in preterm infants who receive dexamethasone for chronic lung disease."
The risk for CP in a preterm infant (32-37 weeks) is increased about five-fold over the risk for an infant born at term.
Survivors of extremely preterm births (less than 28 weeks) face as much as a 50-fold increase in risk.
Preterm labor is the most common complication of prenatal surgery.
A large multicenter trial showed that steroid drugs given to women in preterm labor may protect their offspring from necrotizing enterocolitis.
Mothers younger than 20 years of age or older than 35 years of age have higher rates of preterm delivery.
E., et al. "Association between severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy and lower rate of preterm births."
Cocaine-exposed, preterm infants given massage three times daily for a 10-day period showed significant improvement.
Clarke, P., et al. "DTP immunization of steroid treated preterm infants."
According to the March of Dimes, about 12 percent of babies in the United States are born preterm.
Your care provider will try very hard to stop preterm labor.
It is vital if you are going into preterm labor that it is caught quickly.
However, the most common complications in pregnancy include ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes, and preterm labor.
Preterm labor can be a serious pregnancy complication.
If you go into preterm labor, your care provider will try to stop it with medications and bed rest.
If you do deliver a preterm baby, your baby may have to stay in the hospital for a while.
Preterm labor occurs when labor begins before the babies reach 37 weeks gestation.
Roughly 90 percent of triplet births are preterm.
Preterm labor and delivery can lead to complications after the babies are born.
If you are at risk for preterm labor and you think you have lost your mucus plug, call your doctor right away.
If you are currently pregnant and considered to be at high risk for preterm labor, your doctor may arrange for you to deliver in a hospital with a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
This can help reduce the risk of preterm labor.
In some cases, the medication is used to prevent preterm labor, a drug use that is not approved by the FDA.
A terbutaline autism lawsuit may be possible if the mother received the drug to prevent preterm labor but it isn't certain whether the suit would be successful in all cases.
A substantially increased risk of delivering a preterm low birthweight infant among mothers with periodontal disease was reported in a recent study.
The researchers concluded that being born preterm may have a long-term effect on cholesterol metabolism in children 8 to 12 years later.
Clinical antecedents linked with this type of injury include maternal pyrexia, prolonged preterm rupture of membranes and maternal leucocytosis.
At birth, particularly with preterm births, an infant's immature liver may not be able to process all of the bilirubin formed as red blood cells are removed from circulation.
Infants who are discharged from the hospital before bilirubin levels begin to rise, about three days after birth, should have their bilirubin level tested within a few days, particularly if they were preterm infants.
This often means more frequent visits to the healthcare provider, serial ultrasounds to make sure that the babies are growing satisfactorily, amniocentesis to check for lung development, and close monitoring for preterm labor.
It assists with dating the pregnancy, determining the number of fetuses, detecting fetal anomalies, following the growth and development of each fetus, and serves to monitor the length of the cervix in anticipation of preterm labor.
If it becomes apparent that a multiple gestation is going to have a preterm delivery, the mother will be given an injection of a steroid, beta-methasone, to help the lungs mature.
If preterm labor is impossible to control at home, the mother may be hospitalized and medication used to attempt to control contractions and dilatation of the cervix.