Objective To assess neurodevelopmental outcome during toddlerhood in very low birthweight (VLBW) infants with absent or reverse end-diastolic flow (AREDF) in the umbilical artery (UA) during pregnancy ...

Correspondence to Dr Jonathan Wyllie, Department of Neonatology, The James Cook University Hospital, Marton Road, Middlesbrough TS4 3BW, UK; jonathan.wyllie{at}stees.nhs.uk If you wish to reuse any or ...

AIM To compare the effects of early against delayed sodium supplementation on oxygen dependency and body weight, in preterm infants of 25–30 weeks of gestational age. METHODS Infants were stratified ...

Department of Psychology and Health Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Dr Samantha Johnson, Institute for Women’s Health, 86–96 Chenies Mews, ...

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 ...

Objective Mechanisms of non-invasive high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (nHFOV) in preterm infants are unclear. We aimed to compare lung volume changes during apnoeas in preterm infants on nHFOV ...

Background Management of pneumothorax in neonates requiring retrieval poses unique challenges, including decision to insert an intercostal catheter (ICC). We aimed to report the proportion and ...

Objective To compare the efficacy of T-piece resuscitator (TPR) and self-inflating bag (SIB) for resuscitation of preterm neonates in the delivery room. Settings Level III neonatal intensive care unit ...

Background International neonatal resuscitation guidelines recommend the use of laryngeal mask airway (LMA) with newborn infants (≥34 weeks’ gestation or >2 kg weight) when bag-mask ventilation (BMV) ...

London Centre for Paediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London WC1N 3JH, UK and Institute of Child Health, University College London, London ...

Objective During perinatal transition, compromised cerebral oxygenation may contribute to neonatal morbidity and mortality. Near-infrared spectroscopy measures cerebral regional tissue oxygen ...

Correspondence to Dr Melissa C Morgan, Department of Paediatrics, University of California San Francisco, 550 16th Street, P.O. Box 1224, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Melissa.Morgan{at}ucsf.edu ...