1. Incidence of late vitamin K deficiency bleeding in various population studies, excluding cases where bleeding occurred because prophylactic vitamin K was not given, as recommended, with 95% CI. Konakion was used in all studies except the 1995 Swiss study, where Konakion MM was used, and the current study, where Orakay was used.
Incidence of late vitamin K deficiency bleeding in various population studies, excluding cases where bleeding occurred because prophylactic vitamin K was not given, as recommended, with 95% CI. Konakion was used in all studies except the 1995 Swiss study, where Konakion MM was used, and the current study, where Orakay was used. A small, but poorly defined minority of “ill” babies received intramuscular prophylaxis in all the studies of multidose oral prophylaxis.
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