Predictive value of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program - Pediatrics risk calculator in neonatal patients. A retrospective correlational study.

Objective: To verify the predictive value of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program-Pediatric calculator as a prognosis for complications in neonatal patients undergoing surgery.

Method: An observational, retrospective, cross-sectional and correlational study was carried out. The files of the surgical neonates of the neonatology unit of the General Hospital of Puebla Dr.

Neonatal Intestinal Obstruction Syndrome.

Neonatal intestinal obstruction is caused by an anatomical abnormality that produces bowel movement failure. Intestinal obstruction presents with three classic clinical signs: vomiting, abdominal distention, and failure to pass meconium. Intestinal obstruction is one of the most common causes for admitting a pediatric patient to the pediatric surgery unit in his or her first weeks of postnatal life.