Correspondence to Dr Tom Norris, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK; tom.norris{at}le.ac.uk Objectives Construct updated birth weight-for-gestational age ...

Objective Since therapeutic hypothermia became standard care for neonatal hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE), even fewer infants die or have disability at 18-month assessment than in the clinical ...

Objectives To examine if therapeutic hypothermia reduces the composite outcome of death, moderate or severe disability at 18 months or more after mild neonatal encephalopathy (NE). Data source MEDLINE ...

Correspondence to Dr Dominic Wilkinson, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; dominic.wilkinson{at}philosophy.ox.ac.uk The 2009 British Association of ...

Correspondence to Dr Serafina Perrone, Neonatal Care Unit, Department of Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University Hospital of Siena, Viale M. Bracci 16, 53100 Siena, Italy; saraspv{at}yahoo.it ...

Newborn infants must undergo complex physiological changes when transitioning from fetal to extrauterine life, including rapid lung aeration, fluid clearance and major haemodynamic shifts. Although ...

Background The success of surgery in infants with hepatobiliary disease is inversely proportional to the age when surgery was performed. Pale stool colour is a major indicator of biliary obstruction.

Context In spontaneously breathing preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) receiving nasal continuous positive airway pressure, a method of less invasive surfactant administration ...

This review discusses an approach to determining the cause of neonatal encephalopathy, as well as current evidence on resuscitation and subsequent management of hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE).

Background Ketones and lactate may contribute towards overall cerebral fuel availability in term infants, yet the availability of such cerebral fuels in very preterm infants is unclear. We undertook a ...

Objective To explore families’ experiences of hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) care in the National Health Service (NHS) and the impact of HIE on families. Design Semistructured interviews (n=28 ...

Objective To predict length of stay in neonatal care for all admissions of very preterm singleton babies. Setting All neonatal units in England. Patients Singleton babies born at 24–31 weeks ...