4 Department of Child Health, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK 5 Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Children's Hospital for Wales, Cardiff, UK Correspondence to Dr Peter ...

1 Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Freeman Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7DN, UK 2 Paediatric Department, North Tyneside General Hospital, Rake Lane, North Shields NE29 8NH, UK ...

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Correspondence to Dr Mark Tracy, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney University, PO Box 533, Wentworthville, NSW 2145, Australia; mark.tracy{at}sydney.edu.au Background The T-piece ...

Objective To conduct a systematic review of neonatal necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) rates in high-income countries published in peer-reviewed journals. Methods We searched MEDLINE, Embase and PubMed ...

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 ...

AIM To establish a reference range for serum cortisol concentrations in preterm infants with a gestational age of less than 30 weeks during the first two weeks of life. METHODS Infants were ...

Survival without bronchopulmonary dysplasia in extremely preterm infants: an external, population-based validation, comparison and optimisation study of recent prediction models at baseline ...

BACKGROUND Slight morphological asymmetry of the cerebral hemispheres has been observed in fetal and newborn brains. In adults, sex differences in hemispheric asymmetry have also been reported.

Background Maternal obesity is an important risk factor for venous thromboembolism and it is recommended that women with a body mass index (BMI) >40 kg/m 2 should be considered for postpartum ...

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 ...

2 Neonatal Unit, Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health, Royal Infirmary, Little France, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Background: The incidence of preterm meconium staining of the amniotic fluid (MSAF) is ...