[Early neonatal mortality related to clinical interventions]

Descriptive cross-sectional study that aimed at verifying the influence of clinical interventions carried out in the delivery room and in the Neonatal ICU in the early neonatal death, in Cuiabá-MT, 2010. The data collection was performed in January-February 2011, based on the data found in the live birth certificates, death certificates and hospital records, filed and examined in the SPSS program version 15.0. Of the 77 deaths analyzed, 94.7% of the babies were born in a hospital and more than 70% died early. The interventions in the delivery room that were associated to the risk of early death were cardiopulmonary resuscitation and intubation; during the hospital stay, the central catheter of peripheral insertion and the blood transfusion were associated as protection factors for early death. Knowing about which of these clinical practices are beneficial or harmful to the neonate´s health is essential to reach the quality of care and, consequently, to reduce the neonatal deaths, mainly the early ones.