Changes in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit statistics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: With the identification of COVID-19 disease in China, a pandemic began that affected health-care systems. The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Hospital de Ginecobstetricia del Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente experienced an increase in patient flow as part of the COVID-19 strategy of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS). This study aimed to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on neonatal care and mortality indicators in our unit.

[Clinical course of children of mothers with addictions into a neonatal intensive care unit in western Mexico].

Background: Pregnancy in women addicted represents, in itself, a major risk of destruction of physical and mental health of the unborn child; urgent prevention is the same as essential to providing quality care to the mother and child knowledge.

Objective: Describe the physical and sociodemographic characteristics of neonates in intensive care units, born of mothers with addictions.

Materials And Method: Cross-sectional, descriptive study of neonates with addict mothers, analyzing age, gender, clinical symptoms and complications.

[Tuberculosis in perinatal stage. A challenge to the binomial care mother-son. Report of two cases].

Case report of 18-year old female patient with clinical signs of pulmonary tuberculosis during pregnancy at beginning of fourth month into term, with airway impairment, as evidenced by dry cough, fever and night sweats, as well as a 6 kg. weightloss. Twenty-two days after giving birth, the patient was hospitalized with high fever and deteriorated health conditions, requiring treatment in the intensive care unit due to complications such as severe malnutrition, septic shock, pulmonary abscess, pachypleuritis, empyema and bronchopleural fistula.

[Out-of-hospital delivery. Experience of ten years in Jalisco, Mexico].

Background: Birth without medical assistance, or outs hospitals is defined as one that occurs without the optimal medical and health care conditions for mother and son pairing. Frequency of this phenomenon is not known in Mexico.

Objective: To observe clinical outcomes, morbidity, mortality, epidemiological and geographical patterns.