Morbidity and mortality due to surgical congenital malformations from the perspective of surgical neonatal ICU outside a maternity service: a retrospective cohort study.

The level III surgical Neonatal Intensive Care Unit outside of a maternity service has a different profile of morbidity and mortality, and death was associated with the diagnosis of congenital heart disease, the clinical diagnosis of sepsis, and the isolation of gram-positive bacteria in the blood culture.