Abstract
Currently, neonates are discharged from neonatal units in conformity with the recommendations of the Czech Society of Neonatology and the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic guidelines 72 hours after delivery at the earliest. The recommended length of hospitalization allows for detecting serious cases of impaired neonatal adaptation after birth (particularly the signs of perinatal asphyxia), ruling out early forms of perinatal infections, ruling out serious congenital developmental defects, optimizing breastfeeding and/or formula feeding, diagnosing and treatment of severe forms of neonatal jaundice, and performing compulsory screening tests and TB vaccination.
The early neonatal period is associated with a very high risk of developing other major complications. The aim of the article is to highlight the most common serious complications of the early neonatal period after the end of hospitalization (three to seven days after delivery) that may manifest even in the later neonatal period or, possib