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Making sense of the evidence: designing randomised controlled trials for preterm infants with high-shunt volume patent ductus arteriosus

Management of the patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in preterm infants remains controversial. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have shown that administering pharmacotherapy, predominantly ibuprofen, a ...
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Neonatal stroke active surveillance BPSU study in the UK and the Republic of Ireland with a meta-analysis of national surveillance studies

Objective Assess the incidence, presentation, management and short-term outcomes of neonatal stroke in the UK and Ireland (ROI). Design Active surveillance (British Paediatric Surveillance Unit) study ...
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Persistent non-visualisation of the fetal stomach: diagnostic and prognostic implications

Design All fetuses diagnosed with ‘absent stomach’ at anomaly screening over an 8-year period were identified using the University College Hospital fetal medicine database. These were cross-referenced ...
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Predictive Intelligent Control of Oxygenation (PRICO) in preterm infants on high flow nasal cannula support: a randomised cross-over study

Objective To investigate the efficacy of automated control of inspired oxygen (FiO2) by Predictive Intelligent Control of Oxygenation (PRICO) on the Fabian ventilator in maintaining oxygen saturation ...
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Development and initial validation of the EDIN scale, a new tool for assessing prolonged pain in preterm infants

OBJECTIVE To develop and validate a scale suitable for use in clinical practice as a tool for assessing prolonged pain in premature infants. METHODS Pain indicators identified by observation of ...
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Drainage, irrigation and fibrinolytic therapy (DRIFT) for posthaemorrhagic ventricular dilatation: 10-year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial

Background Progressive ventricular dilatation after intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH) in preterm infants has a very high risk of severe disability and death. Drainage, irrigation and fibrinolytic ...
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Current Issue

Correction: Neurodevelopmental outcome at 5.5 years in Dutch preterm infants born at 24-26 weeks' gestational age: the EPI-DAF study ...
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Switch from intravenous-to-oral antibiotics in neonatal probable and proven early-onset infection: a prospective population-based real-life multicentre cohort study

Objective To evaluate the implementation of switch from intravenous-to-oral antibiotic therapy with amoxicillin in neonates with early-onset infection (EOI). Design, setting and patients A ...
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The effects of noise on preterm infants in the NICU

1 Department of Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Department of Pediatrics, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, ...
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Providing active antenatal care depends on the place of birth for extremely preterm births: the EPIPAGE 2 cohort study

4 DHU Risk in Pregnancy, Maternité Port Royal Paris Descartes University Cochin Broca Hotel Dieu Hospitals Assistance publique des hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France 5 UPMC Univ Paris 06, Sorbonne ...
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Role of ECMO in congenital diaphragmatic hernia

Correspondence to Merrill McHoney, Royal Hospital for Sick Children Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH1 1LF, UK; merrillmchoney{at}nhs.net Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is ...
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Glucose monitoring in neonates: need for accurate and non-invasive methods

1 Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Department of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering ...