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Less invasive surfactant administration versus intubation for surfactant delivery in preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Context In spontaneously breathing preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) receiving nasal continuous positive airway pressure, a method of less invasive surfactant administration ...
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Metabolic bone disease of prematurity: causes, recognition, prevention, treatment and long-term consequences

Metabolic bone disease of prematurity (MBDP) is characterised by skeletal demineralisation, and in severe cases it can result in fragility fractures of long bones and ribs during routine handling.
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Fetal brain disruption sequence in a newborn infant with a history of cordocentesis at 21 weeks gestation

Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Principe de Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain Dr Villó, Servicio de Pediatria, Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias, Carretera de ...
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Empirical treatment of neonatal sepsis: are the current guidelines adequate?

2 Division of Child Health, St George's, University of London, London, UK 3 MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, University College London – Institute of Child Health, London, UK 4 Paediatric ...
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Observational cohort study of use of caffeine in preterm infants and association between early caffeine use and neonatal outcomes

Objective To quantify trends in caffeine use in infants born at <32 weeks’ gestational age (GA), and to investigate the effects of early vs late caffeine on neonatal outcomes. Study design ...
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Hyponatraemia in the newborn

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The importance of irradiance and area in neonatal phototherapy

Medical Physics Department, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford BD9 6RJ, UK Correspondence to: Mr Hart Medical Physics Department, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Duckworth Lane, Bradford BD9 6RJ, UK; graham ...
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Osteopenia in preterm infants

2 Neonatal Intensive Care, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to Alan T Gibson, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Neonatal Intensive Care, Consultant ...
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Core outcomes in neonatology: development of a core outcome set for neonatal research

Correspondence to Dr James William Harrison Webbe, Academic Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK; j.webbe{at}imperial.ac.uk Background Neonatal research evaluates many different ...
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Randomised trial comparing hand expression with breast pumping for mothers of term newborns feeding poorly

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA 2 University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA 3 Kaiser ...
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Treatment of asphyxiated newborns with moderate hypothermia in routine clinical practice: how cooling is managed in the UK outside a clinical trial

Background: This is a phase 4 study of infants registered with the UK TOBY Cooling Register from December 2006 to February 2008. The registry was established on completion of enrolment to the TOBY ...
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Blood cultures in newborns and children: optimising an everyday test

Correspondence to: Dr Buttery, Clinical Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia; butteryj{at}cryptic.rch.unimelb.edu.au ...