Non Stress Test as a Predictor of Maternal and Fetal Outcome in Patients Presenting with Reduced Fetal Movement at Term.

Background: Establishing the predictive utility of Non stress test could be helpful to improve perinatal outcome especially in countries like Nepal, with heavy workload and limited resources. The aim of the study was to assess association between Non stress test abnormalities and fetal outcome in terms of Apgar score and newborn intensive care unit admission rate for patient with decreased fetal movement.

Methods: The study included total 54 women with decreased fetal movement at term without any pregnancy complication not in labor admitted to paropakar maternity and women's hospital, Thapathali, Kathmandu from June 2020 to December 2020.

Use of therapeutic plasma exchange for pediatric neurological diseases.

Therapeutic plasma exchange is used to treat neurological diseases in the pediatric population. Since its first use in pediatric patients with hepatic coma in the form of manual whole blood exchange, therapeutic plasma exchange has been increasingly used to treat these disorders of the nervous system. This expansion is a result of improved techniques and apheresis instruments suitable for small children, as well as the recognition of its applicability to many diseases in the pediatric population.