Sudhin Thayyil, Stuti Pant, Paolo Montaldo, Deepika Shukla et al.
BACKGROUND: Although therapeutic hypothermia reduces death or disability after neonatal encephalopathy in high-income countries, its safety and efficacy in low-income and middle-income countries is unclear. We aimed to examine whether therapeutic hypothermia alongside optimal supportive intensive ca...
Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Tahmeed Ahmed, Hasan Ashraf, Abu Syed Golam Faruque et al.
BACKGROUND: Clinical features of metabolic acidosis and pneumonia frequently overlap in young diarrheal children, resulting in differentiation from each other very difficult. However, there is no published data on the predictors of metabolic acidosis in diarrheal children also having pneumonia. Our ...
Chandan Kumar Shaha, Sanjoy Kumer Dey, Kamrul Hassan Shabuj, Jubair Chisti et al.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjch.v36i2.13084 Bangladesh J Child Health 2012; Vol 36 (2): 82-89
Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Goutom Banik, Shema Mhajabin, Tazeen Tahsina et al.
INTRODUCTION: There is a set of globally accepted and nationally adapted signal functions for categorising health facilities for maternal services. Newborn resuscitation is the only newborn intervention which is included in the WHO recommended list of emergency obstetric care signal functions. This ...
Mohammad Kamrul Hassan Shabuj, Jesmin Hossain, Sanjoy Kumer Dey
BACKGROUND: Transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) measurement is widely used in term babies. But its effectiveness till debated in preterm infants. So, our objective was to pool data to see the accuracy of transcutaneous bilirubinometry in preterm infants. METHOD: MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Library database...
Sanjoy Kumer Dey, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Sumon Kumar Das, Chandan Kumar Shaha et al.
BACKGROUND: Lack of breast feeding is associated with higher morbidity and case-fatality from both bacterial and viral etiologic diarrheas. However, there is very limited data on the characteristics of non-breastfed infants attending hospital with diarrheal illnesses caused by common bacterial and v...
Sanjoy Kumer Dey, Mohammad Salim Zahangir, Mohammad Omar Faruk, Sorif Hossain et al.
Malnutrition among women of reproductive age is an important public health issue with significant implications for maternal and child health. A complex interplay of socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental factors influences the prevalence and determinants of malnutrition in this demographic statu...
Abdullahel Amaan, Sanjoy Kumer Dey, Khainoor Zahan
Background. Healthcare workers’ (HCWs) hands become progressively colonized with potential pathogens during their patient care and act as a vehicle for transmission of microorganisms to other patients. Hand hygiene is undisputedly one of the most effective infection control measures. The objective o...
Farzana Ahmed, Sanjoy Kumer Dey, Mohammod Shahidullah, M. A. Mannan et al.
Optimal enteral nutrition is essential for growth restricted preterm infants because if nutrition remains suboptimal during early days of life, physical and neuro-developmental outcome might be in danger. However, chronic hypoxia during antenatal period makes them susceptible for feeding intolerance...
Mohammod Shahidullah, Arjun Chandra Dey, Firoz Ahmed, Ismat Jahan et al.
Retinopathy of prematurity is considered as an important cause of blindness. This prospective study was undertaken to document the frequency and the associated factors of retinopathy of prematurity among 97 preterm newborn weighing <2000 g and/or with a gestation of <35 weeks. The first eye ex...
MA Mannan, Sharmin Afroze, Sanjoy Kumer Dey, Sadeka Choudhury Moni et al.
Birth defects are one of the leading causes of neonatal mortality worldwide. Every year more than 8.14 million children are born with a serious birth defect. The risk factors predictive of birth defects in babies vary from country to country even from region to region. About 60% of the causes of bir...
Sharmin Afroze, MA Mannan, Sanjoy Kumer Dey, Sadeka Choudhury Moni et al.
Background: Birth defect is one of the most important causes of neonatal mortality worldwide. In a developing country like Bangladesh many possible factors for birth defects are present which should be identified. This study was performed to determine those risk factors of birth defect and complicat...
Abu Faisal Md Pervez, Md Fakhrul Amin Badal, SM Nurun Nabi, Mohammad Kamrul Hassan Shabuj et al.
Background: Seizure occurs more frequently in neonatal period and incidence of seizure is 50%-68% in perinatal asphyxia. At present phenobarbital is the drug of choice for treating neonatal seizure, which has some adverse effects on neurodevelopment status. Levetiracetam is a novel antiepileptic age...
Sanjoy Kumer Dey, Sultana Jahan, Ismat Jahan, Mohammad S. Islam et al.
BACKGROUND: Exchange transfusion in newborns is recommended as emergency management of hyperbilirubinemia to prevent bilirubin encephalopathy and kernicterus. AIM: This study aimed to determine the frequency and document common side effects of exchange transfusion and outcomes of newborns requiring ...
Mohammod Shahidullah, M Zahidul Hasan, Ismat Jahan, Firoz Ahmed et al.
Background: One of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG-4) is to reduce child mortality up to two-thirds by 2015. In most developing countries, a higher proportion of neonatal deaths are observed. It has been recognized that without a substantial reduction in neonatal deaths, MDG-4 will not be met....
Firoz Ahmed, M. A. Mannan, A C Dey, Nargis Nahar et al.
Starting and advancement of feeding in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants are big challenges for the neonatal practitioners. Wide variations in volume of feed advancement have observed in earlier trials both in slow and rapid advancement groups. Volume advancement in slow advancement groups have r...
Bradford L. Therrell, Carmencita D. Padilla, Michelle E. Abadingo, Shree Prasad Adhikari et al.
Approximately half of all births globally occur in the Asia Pacific Region. Concerted efforts to support local activities aimed at developing national newborn screening (NBS) have been ongoing for almost 30 years, first by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and then through volunteer effo...
Sanjoy Kumer Dey, Sharmin Afroze, Tariqul Islam, Ismat Jahan et al.
BACKGROUND: Expectant reduction of neonatal mortality and formulation of preventive strategies can only be achieved by analysis of risk factors in a particular setting. This study aimed to document incidence of neonatal death and to analyze the risk factors associated with neonatal death. METHODS: T...
Sanjoy Kumer Dey, S Sharker, Ishrat Jahan, Sadeka Choudhury Moni et al.
Safe transportation is mostly an unnoticed neonatal health issue in Bangladesh and no documentation is available regarding the existing practices. So this study was intended to document transport status of the referred newborn to a tertiary care hospital. This observational study included 150 out bo...
Reema Garegrat, Atul Londhe, Swati Manerkar, Sudhindrashayana Fattepur et al.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the feasibility of early and extended erythropoietin monotherapy after hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE). DESIGN: Double-blind pilot randomised controlled trial. SETTING: Eight neonatal units in South Asia. PATIENTS: Neonates (≥36 weeks) with moderate or severe HIE admitte...