Quick ?: What is lowest viable birth weight?

[mitchsmom]

I know the time frame for viability but what is typically the lowest viable birth weight?

TIA if anyone knows :)

My patient this week was a previous 27 week IUGR preemie born 533g.

[suzanne4, RN]

But remember that viable and with quality of life are completely two different things.

[SmilingBluEyes]

True enough, Suzanne.

[prmenrs, RN]

Sometimes, the problems are technical--you can get 2.0 ETT, but it's hard to get a suction catheter down it. That sort of thing. There is a web site that actually has birth wts and gestations of micropremies who survived, and other info. I'll try to find it later.

[Gompers, BSN, RN]

Sometimes, the problems are technical--you can get 2.0 ETT, but it's hard to get a suction catheter down it. That sort of thing. There is a web site that actually has birth wts and gestations of micropremies who survived, and other info. I'll try to find it later.

http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/tiniestbabies/

[prmenrs, RN]

Thank you, kindly, Ms Gompers! Saved my little fingers a bit of work!