Table 2.
Summary of Results (OB N=16, Neo N=15)
| Code | Frequency | Illustrative Quotations |
|---|---|---|
| OB Defers for ‘Exact numbers’ | OB: n=8 |
And a lot of the numbers, honestly, I leave up to the NICU [OB 11]
I'd like [the neonatologists] to come and talk to you just because they can give you the exact numbers [OB 16] [The neonatologists] actually have a better handle of all the statistics...As I said, the most important people are going to be the neonatologist or the baby doctors, and so we will have someone from the nursery come and talk to you about all the statistics that they have and their numbers. [OB 5] |
| Survival | OB: n=6 Neo: n=12 |
The likelihood of them surviving between 23 and 24 weeks might be right around 30-40% [OB 17]
If you look down the road, if 1 in 3 or 4 babies survive this... so one-third chance, and in your case, I should say maybe closer to 40% chance, a little better than 1 in 3, chance that she will survive. [NEO 11] |
| Intact Survival | OB: n=2 Neo: n=2 |
To give you an idea, probably less than 10 percent of babies born at 23 weeks are going to survive, and perhaps 10 percent of that will have an intact survival or normal wellbeing. [OB 4]
The survival without some pretty significant neurodevelopmental issues is low - it's only 10%, so only 1 out of 10 babies that are in her situation are going to survive without some serious neurologic problems...only a 10% chance of survival without some profound developmental problems intact [NEO 13] So when we take that one kid and they do survive they have significant impairments...you know they 're able to keep up with the other kids when they enter school is probably in the low one to two percent. So one in a hundred, one in fifty. [NEO 5] |
| Long-term Disability | OB: n=1 Neo: n=3 |
And the chance for a long-term disability is probably going to be somewhere in the range of 80-85 %. [OB 3]
Of those babies who survive, at least half will have some significant permanent impairment, which could affect the way they can walk or sit, their ability to run or play a sport, they may be slow or very slow in their ability to learn. [NEO 11] |