Desarrollo psicomotor, prematurez y bajo peso al nacer, en el Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. Cuenca - Septiembre 2001 - Mayo 2002

Abstract

The neurological development of the newborn, is a set of different periods or stages of development, the genetically determined at conception, this may be modified by the environment. It is important to perform a primary neurological examination by a pediatrician or a general practitioner and go each month and evaluating whether this development is progressing properly or there are changes in this may be influenced by factors such as newborn weight and age Gestational. This paper aims to try to identify whether the weight and prematurz are risk factors associated with delayed psychomotor development. For which he was assessed the newborn within the first 24 hours and then by monthly controls for six months. This finding delay in the occurrence of flare as fixating, guttural sounds, attempt to head control, follow moving objects, puts his hands and objects in their mouths, stands likewise in 80 cases without being significantly statistical, establishing a relationship between low birth weight and prematurity delayed psychomotor development