Correspondence to Dr Catherine M Harrison, Neonatology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, LS1 3EX, UK; catherine.harrison10{at}nhs.net The WHO estimates that 15 million babies are born ...

Breast feeding improves important outcomes for mothers and infants. In the UK, breastfeeding rates have historically been low, particularly among socially disadvantaged young women. Although there ...

AIM To compare the efficacy and safety of an indomethacin treatment strategy based on serial echocardiographic measurement of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) flow pattern with a standard protocol.

2 Institute of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy Non-invasive high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (NHFOV) consists of the application of a bias ...

Background: Measurements of the subarachnoid space during routine cranial sonography may provide an indirect method of monitoring brain growth in preterm infants. Methods: The width of the ...

3 Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, National Neonatal Audit Programme, London, UK Methods We obtained data from the National Neonatal Research Database. We used logistic regression to ...

Objective To compare the effectiveness of sedation by intranasal administration of midazolam (nMDZ) or ketamine (nKTM) for neonatal intubation. Design A multicentre, prospective, randomised, ...

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Background Umbilical venous catheters (UVCs) are associated with thrombus formation. Most studies on thrombosis in infants with UVCs focus on only one part of the route, and none assessed a control ...

Bettina Bohnhorst, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, D-30625 Hannover; bohnhorst.bettina{at}mh-hannover.de Background: Early ...

Objective To determine whether extending caffeine therapy through 43 weeks’ postmenstrual age (PMA) decreases intermittent hypoxia (IH) in convalescing preterm infants. Secondary objectives were to ...

Objectives While antibiotics save lives in infants with sepsis, up to 12.0% of non-infected term and late preterm infants are exposed to antibiotics underscoring diagnostic challenges in early onset ...