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Neuroscience meets nurture: challenges of prematurity and the critical role of family-centred and developmental care as a key part of the neuroprotection care bundle

Advances in neonatal–perinatal medicine have resulted in increased survival at lower gestations. Although the incidence of germinal matrix haemorrhage-intraventricular haemorrhage and cystic ...
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Investigating variations and early-life temporal changes in oxygen saturation indices in healthy moderate-late preterm and term infants: a cohort study

Background Neonatal respiratory system immaturity causes unstable breathing patterns during sleep, resulting in respiratory events and intermittent hypoxaemia (IH). The recent literature correlates ...
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Milk osmolality: does it matter?

High osmolality of infant feed reflects a high concentration of solute particles and has been implicated as a cause of necrotising enterocolitis. Evidence for direct intestinal mucosal injury as a ...
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Neonatal jaundice assessment across all skin tones: finding the gaps between guidelines and practice

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Patient-ventilator asynchrony in preterm infants on nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation

Correspondence to Cornelia G de Waal, Department of Neonatology, Emma Children’s Hospital, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam 1100 DD, The Netherlands; c.g.dewaal{at}amc.uva.nl Objective To describe ...
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Current knowledge and future perspectives on management and prevention of group B streptococcus in neonates and young infants

Group B Streptococcus (GBS) remains a leading cause of neonatal sepsis and meningitis in the UK, with an incidence of around 0.9 per 1000 live births. Early-onset disease usually results from vertical ...
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Electrographic seizures are associated with brain injury in newborns undergoing therapeutic hypothermia

Objective Seizures are common among newborns with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) but the relationship between seizure burden and severity of brain injury among neonates receiving therapeutic ...
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Less invasive surfactant administration versus intubation for surfactant delivery in preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Context In spontaneously breathing preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) receiving nasal continuous positive airway pressure, a method of less invasive surfactant administration ...
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Impact of retinopathy of prematurity on ocular structures and visual functions

The preterm baby may develop ophthalmic sequelae which can be due to prematurity per se, due to retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) or due to neurological damage. Focusing on the former two, we discuss ...
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Combining abdominal ultrasound and radiography for surgical risk stratification in necrotising enterocolitis: a prospective cohort pilot study

Objective To evaluate whether combining abdominal ultrasound with radiography improves diagnostic accuracy and surgical risk stratification in neonates with suspected necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) ...
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Umbilical cord milking for non-vigorous term and late preterm neonates: are we there yet?

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Late-onset neonatal sepsis: recent developments

1 Department of Paediatrics, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China 2 University Children's Hospital, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany Correspondence to Christian P Speer, ...