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Continuous glucose monitoring in the neonatal intensive care unit: not quite ready for ‘plug and play’
Correspondence to Paul Joseph Rozance, Department of Pediatrics, Perinatal Research Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Paul.Rozance{at}ucdenver.edu In the very ...
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Parental visiting, communication, and participation in ethical decisions: a comparison of neonatal unit policies in Europe
Dr Marina Cuttini Unit of Epidemiology Burlo Garofolo Children’s Hospital via dell’Istria 65/1 34137 Trieste Italy. Email:cuttini{at}burlo.trieste.it AIM To compare neonatal intensive care unit ...
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Rationing antibiotic use in neonatal units
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Potential risk factors for the development of acute renal failure in preterm newborn infants: a case-control study
3 Pediatric Division, Section of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, A Di Summa Hospital, Brindisi, Italy 4 Department of Pediatrics and Clinical Medicine, Section of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, ...
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Non-invasive measurement of reduced ventilation:perfusion ratio and shunt in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: a physiological definition of the disease
Correspondence to: B J Stenson Neonatal Unit, Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4SU, UK; ben.stenson{at}luht.scot.nhs.uk Aims: To describe the ...
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Association of gastric fluid microbes at birth with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia
Department of Neonatal Medicine and Pediatrics, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan Shinya Oue, Department of Neonatal Medicine and Pediatrics, Osaka Medical College, 2–7 Daigakumachi, ...
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A randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial of the effect of theophylline in prevention of vasomotor nephropathy in very preterm neonates with respiratory distress ...
Background: Vasomotor nephropathy is a common renal dysfunction in very preterm neonates. Objective: To determine whether theophylline could prevent vasomotor nephropathy in very preterm infants with ...
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Opioids for neonates receiving mechanical ventilation: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Objective To evaluate the effect of opioid analgesics, compared to placebo, no drug, or other non-opioid analgesics or sedatives, on pain, duration of mechanical ventilation, mortality, growth and ...
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Barriers to deferred cord clamping in preterm infants
Objectives To describe the range of practices employed by units conducting deferred cord clamping at very preterm birth. Design Qualitative study using semistructured interviews with neonatal doctors, ...
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A randomised controlled trial to compare methods of milk expression after preterm delivery
OBJECTIVES Primary: to compare sequential and simultaneous breast pumping on volume of milk expressed and its fat content. Secondary: to measure the effect of breast massage on milk volume and fat ...
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Cooling and seizure burden in term neonates: an observational study
Objective To investigate any possible effect of cooling on seizure burden, the authors quantified the recorded electrographic seizure burden based on multichannel video-EEG recordings in term neonates ...
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Oxygen consumption and resting energy expenditure during phototherapy in full term and preterm newborn infants
OBJECTIVES To determine the effect of phototherapy on the oxygen consumption and resting energy expenditure of term and preterm newborn infants. METHODS A total of 202 infants (gestation 30–42 weeks; ...