A term female infant was born weighing 3.4 kg after uneventful antenatal care. There was no significant family medical history of note. Evident at birth were a series of erythematous nodular lesions ...

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).

Neonatal paracetamol poisoning is rare and usually the result of maternal poisoning before birth.1 We report the case of a neonate who received a high dose of propacetamol chlorhydrate by ...

Objectives: The effect of delayed analysis on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) white blood cell (WBC) count and glucose has never been studied in neonates. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: Level ...

AIMS To establish normal ranges, in preterm infants < 33 weeks' gestation, for measurements of the lateral, third, and fourth ventricles and to assess intra-observer and inter-observer reliability. To ...

William Buchan was born in Ancram in Roxburghshire in 1729 where his father had a small estate.1 Even during his school days he acted as amateur doctor to the village. In about 1749, he went to ...

Objective To evaluate the implementation of switch from intravenous-to-oral antibiotic therapy with amoxicillin in neonates with early-onset infection (EOI). Design, setting and patients A ...

Donor human milk (DHM) is currently used in neonatal units (NNUs) for feeding preterm infants when own mother's milk is not available or insufficient. In 2014, the latest Cochrane review1 showed that ...

Conclusions More surviving preterm infants are receiving respiratory support at 36 and 40 weeks PMA. However, a large proportion of infants born 24–27 weeks of gestation transition to no respiratory ...

Objectives To compare the effect of liberal versus restrictive transfusion strategies on the proportion of time (%time) spent with intermittent hypoxaemia (IH, ie, arterial haemoglobin oxygen ...

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 ...

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 ...