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Online clinical tool to estimate risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in extremely preterm infants

Objective Develop an online estimator that accurately predicts bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) severity or death using readily-available demographic and clinical data. Design Retrospective analysis ...
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Bronze baby syndrome: pictorial description of a rare condition

Division of Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care, Casilino General Hospital, ASL-RMB, Rome, Italy Correspondence to Dr Daniele De Luca, Division of Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care, Casilino ...
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Nasal deformities resulting from flow driver continuous positive airway pressure.

Neonatal Unit, St George's Hospital, London. Over a period of six months, seven cases were documented of trauma to the nose as a result of flow driver continuous positive airway pressure in babies of ...
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The effects of a one-to-one nurse-to-patient ratio on the mortality rate in neonatal intensive care: a retrospective, longitudinal, population-based study

Objective To estimate the effect of the provision of a one-to-one nurse-to-patient ratio on mortality rates in neonatal intensive care units. Design A population-based analysis of operational clinical ...
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The EPICure study: growth and associated problems in children born at 25 weeks of gestational age or less

Aim: To define growth outcomes of a geographically defined population of extremely preterm babies. Population: The EPICure study identified all surviving children in the United Kingdom and Ireland ...
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Clinical evaluation of a novel adaptive algorithm for automated control of oxygen therapy in preterm infants on non-invasive respiratory support

4 School of Engineering and ICT, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 5 Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Correspondence to ...
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Neonatal necrotising enterocolitis and perinatal exposure to co-amoxyclav

Correspondence to: Dr Subhedar NICU, Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Crown Street, Liverpool L8 7SS, UK; nvsubhedar_lwh{at}yahoo.com If you wish to reuse any or all of ...
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How reliably can paediatric professionals identify pale stool from cholestatic newborns?

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.
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Gut microbial colonisation in premature neonates predicts neonatal sepsis

1 Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA 2 Computational Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA 3 Division of Infectious ...
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Trends in the incidence and management of hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy in the therapeutic hypothermia era: a national population study

Correspondence to Dr Don Sharkey, Academic Child Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK; don.sharkey{at}nottingham.ac.uk Objective Hypoxic-ischaemic ...
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Severe hypercalcaemia due to subcutaneous fat necrosis: presentation, management and complications

Correspondence to Dr Ari J Wassner, Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; ari.wassner{at}childrens.harvard.edu Objective Subcutaneous fat ...
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Implementation of an adapted Sepsis Risk Calculator algorithm to reduce antibiotic usage in the management of early onset neonatal sepsis: a multicentre initiative in Wales, UK

Correspondence to Dr Sujoy Banerjee, Department of Neonatal Medicine, Singleton Hospital, Swansea, SA2 8QA, UK; sujoy.banerjee{at}wales.nhs.uk Setting Ten perinatal hospitals in Wales, UK. Patients ...