14 Division of Neonatology, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore Objectives To compare success and safety of endotracheal tube (ETT) exchanges with primary intubations and identify factors ...

Objectives Standardised reporting of outcomes in neonatal palliative and/or end-of-life care would facilitate comparison of practice and lead to more informed decisions about practice. We ...

Background High feed osmolality (or osmolarity) is often suggested to be linked with adverse gastrointestinal events in preterm infants. Aim To systematically review the literature on milk feed ...

Neonatal skin antisepsis with alcohol-based compared to aqueous 2% chlorhexidine, used in moderate preterm infants or extremely preterm infants after the first week of life, is safe and may be ...

Dr P N A Adiotomre, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Walsgrave Maternity Hospital, Walsgrave, Coventry CV2 2DX. Sixty babies, delivered over a six and a half year period, who had absent end diastolic ...

Introduction Preterm infants with inadequate breathing receive positive pressure ventilation (PPV) by mask with variable success. The authors examined recordings of PPV given to preterm infants in the ...

Objective Despite lack of evidence supporting efficacy, prophylactic fresh frozen plasma and Octaplas transfusions may be administered to very preterm infants to reduce bleeding risk. International ...

1 Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London and MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK 2 Division of Neonatology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, ...

Background Cranial ultrasound cerebral biometric measurements have been used in preterm neonates, particularly in cases of ventriculomegaly. While cerebral biometric measures using MRI have been found ...

2 Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK; andrew.wilkinsonpaediatrics.ox.ac.uk Correspondence to: Professor Wilkinson Department of Paediatrics, ...

Objective To compare the resistance of interfaces used for the delivery of nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in neonates, as measured by the generated system pressure at fixed gas flows ...

Objective Seizures are common among newborns with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) but the relationship between seizure burden and severity of brain injury among neonates receiving therapeutic ...