Neonatal death and massive pulmonary haemorrhage in Jamaica

ABSTRACT

Examinations were carried out on 27 newborn infants dying with massive pulmonary haemorrhage. Pulmonary haemorrhage occurred in 8 percent of neonatal deaths in this hospital 52 percent of cases died early in the neonatal period and 48 percent later. Anoxia was considered to be the main causal agent in the majority of early cases. In the later cases several factors were considered responsible.(AU)