Ratio of cephalometry and girth and its relationship with respiratory distress in newborns hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit

• Grant number: 11/08279-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: July 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine - Maternal and Child Health
• Principal Investigator: Luiz Carlos de Abreu
• Grantee: Carolina Pinto Rodrigues Evo
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina do ABC (FMABC). Organização Social de Saúde. Fundação do ABC. Santo André , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Introduction: Perinatal examination is based on several data related to physical examination, in which it is included weight, height, cephalometry (PC), binaural distance (DBA), anteroposterior distance (APD) and fontanella size. The girth has been used to compose the cast of anthropometric markers able to predict some point of growth and development of the newborn. Objective: To describe the relationship between cephalometry, girth and relate it to the respiratory distress in a newborn intensive care unit (ICU)and to describe the ratio between the cephalometry and girth. Method: I will be conducted a cross-sectional study with retrospective collection of data on the newborn care, from primary information in electronic database (BED) of the Department of Neonatology, Hospital Municipal de Diadema, SP, inserted in the period January 2044 to August 2008. Data collection will be held during July to December. It will be excluded infants who died and those with incomplete data in BED.