Metabolic bone disease of prematurity (MBDP) is characterised by skeletal demineralisation, and in severe cases it can result in fragility fractures of long bones and ribs during routine handling.

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

1 Department of Newborn Care, RPA Women and Babies Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia 2 Department of Neonatal Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia 3 Faculty of Medicine ...

Objective To determine the change in non-invasive ventilation (NIV) use over time in infants born at <32 weeks’ gestation and the associated clinical outcomes. Study design Retrospective cohort study ...

This review examines the risk/benefit ratio of postnatal steroid treatment in preterm infants and correlates epidemiological data with experimental evidence on the effect of glucocorticosteroids on ...

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 ...

Setting and subjects This study was conducted at a public safety-net hospital in California with a regional level III NICU. Our study included preterm infants <33 weeks’ GA who received ≥30 s DCC and ...

Objective To compare management recommendations of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines with the Kaiser Permanente sepsis risk calculator (SRC) for risk of early ...

aDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, bBritish Colombia Research Institute for Children’s and Women’s Health, Vancouver, Canada Dr Dagmar ...

Objectives For very preterm births, to compare alternative policies for umbilical cord clamping and immediate neonatal care. Design Parallel group randomised (1:1) trial, using sealed opaque numbered ...

Correspondence to Dr Ramesh Agarwal, Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, DL 110029, India; ra.aiims{at}gmail.com Interventions Participants were randomised to ...

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