Introduction: Ventilatory assistance allows for the recovery and maintenance of the patient with cardiorespiratory failure. Thanks to this intervention, many neonatal patient`s lives are saved in the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).
Objectives: This study is a prospective study to analyze the rate of failure and response of management of those patients on mechanical ventilation and relation between the response of cases on MV and different studied demographic, clinical and laboratory data.
Patients and methods: All neonates with respiratory distress admitted from February 2018 to February 2019.Clinical response of mechanical ventilation cases was observed. Demographic and clinical data of neonates included in the study were collected and analyzed.
Results: Among of 316 neonates, 162 cases (51.26%) treated with o2 only, 28 cases (8.86%) treated with bubble CPAP ,126 cases (39.87%) treated with mechanical ventilation. The cases on MV who survived were (23%) and cases who died were (77%). Low birth weight Conclusion: It was found that predictors of mortality in mechanically ventilated neonates concluded from this study were: low birth weight