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National Women's Annual Clinical Report 2010

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9.3.4 Reasons for admission to NICU<br />

Prematurity (36.5%) and respiratory distress (26.3%) remain the commonest reasons for<br />

admission to NICU. However, 110 babies (12.2%) were admitted because of congenital<br />

anomalies. This has increased from 70 (8.8%) in 2006. Forty babies (4.4%) including 34 term<br />

infants were admitted primarily for hypoglycaemia. The full list is presented in Appendix 8.<br />

9.3.5 Antenatal corticosteroids (benchmarked with ANZNN)<br />

Antenatal steroid use has been consistently high in the Network (ANZNN) and ACH over the<br />

last five years. In <strong>2010</strong> over 90% of ACH babies

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