Premature birth as a medical social problem. Part 3. Methods of premature infants follow-up

Abstract

The improvement in newborn intensive care leads to increasing of survival rate in premature infants with very low and extremely low birth weight. Adaptive characteristics of premature infants together with high risk of severe somatic and neurological diseases requires special follow-up system establishment, that could function from the birth and through the first years of life. In this article there are modern opinions of Russian and foreign managements of early intervention practices for premature infants in neonatal intensive care units, hospital stage and at home after discharge. Now research of effectiveness of different stimulations in neonatal period to improve adaptation process and remote developmental outcomes in premature infants is going on. There is very important to give attention to psychological supervision of parents for creation of strong interactions in parent-baby couple.