Difficulties in monitoring of premature infants in outpatient facilities (third stage of nursing)

Premature birth remains an urgent problem of modern healthcare around the world. At the same time, the improvement of neonatal care for premature babies has led to a significant decrease in infant mortality and an increase in the survival rate of children with very low and extremely low body weight. Nursing and monitoring such children requires a special approach. A premature baby has one or more reasons for the early development of chronic pathology and needs a long-term, differentiated, continuous monitoring, provided a clear continuity of all stages of nursing.

The article presents the results of observation of premature babies in 20 polyclinics of Saint Petersburg in the first year of life at the time of the study. The authors analyzed medical histories (form 112/y) of 88 children born prematurely (from 22 to 36 weeks of gestation). It has been determined that most often the dispensary observation groups include children with pathology of the central nervous system, organs of vision, and surgical pathology. Insufficient coverage with vaccine prophylaxis (from 33 to 78% for various vaccine-preventable infections) was revealed not only with additional drugs for the risk group, but also with the main vaccinations of the National Calendar. Monitoring premature babies, their rehabilitation and habilitation are the responsibility of the third (outpatient) level of nursing. However, the lack of uniform approaches to dispensary observation, rehabilitation treatment of premature babies, the lack of clear routing create difficulties in the management of such children in a polyclinic. The authors proposed options for solving this important problem in order to increase the efficiency of the primary pediatric care for premature babies at the place of residence of the child.

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