Bibliographic Info
Recommendation
Recommended
Certainty of evidence
Moderate
All newborns should be given 1 mg of vitamin K intramuscularly after birth (i.e. after the first hour by which the infant should be in skin-to-skin contact with the mother and breastfeeding should be initiated)
Notes and Remarks
1. This recommendation has been integrated from the WHO Recommendations for management of common childhood conditions: evidence for technical update of pocket book recommendations, in which the GDG for that guideline determined it to be a strong recommendation based on moderatequality evidence. 2. No further remarks were noted. 3. The evidence supporting this recommendation can be found in the source guideline document, available at: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44774/1/9789241502825_eng.pdf
Also Featured In
This recommendation also appears in the following guidelines:
Recommendations for management of common childhood conditions : evidence for technical update of pocket book recommendations : newborn conditions, dysentery, pneumonia, oxygen use and delivery, common causes of fever, severe acute malnutrition and supportive care