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Retrospective study of Epidemiological and Management of Vitamin K deficiency bleeding of Newborn Infants National Pediatrics Hospital, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Prum Polim, UM Samnang and Guan Ying

Vitamin K deficiency is a bleeding or Vitamin K deficiency bleeding is a kind of a hemorrhagic disease. Because their blood does not have an enough Vitamin K to form a clot, Vitamin K deficiency bleeding occurred with the symptom of non-stop bleeding. Blood would aggregate in intestines or brain when babies were diagnosed with Vitamin K deficiency bleeding, resulting in brain damage and even death. Infants who do not receive the vitamin K shot at birth could it develop Vitamin K deficiency bleeding when they reached 6 months old. This study has identified the incidence of the age at an onset of symptoms among newborn infants and the survival rate of infants at the National Pediatric Hospital, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.