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 ...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether pre-eclampsia, hypothesised to be an inflammatory condition, is associated with fever in term labour, and confirm and examine the reported association of pre-eclampsia ...

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).

Alcohol-impregnated port protectors to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection in the neonatal intensive care unit: a quality improvement study ...

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 ...

AIM To establish a reference range for serum cortisol concentrations in preterm infants with a gestational age of less than 30 weeks during the first two weeks of life. METHODS Infants were ...

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 ...

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 ...

AIMS The ability of oral vitamin K to eliminate all risk of vitamin K deficiency bleeding during the first three months of life was studied. METHODS Babies (n=182 000) in the north of England judged ...

What is family integrated care? The concept of families providing nursing care for their loved ones is not new. This model has been used in low-resource settings for decades, primarily due to the lack ...

Jaundice in preterm, as well as full term, infants results from ( a ) an increased bilirubin load in the hepatocyte, ( b ) decreased hepatic uptake of bilirubin from the plasma, and/or ( c ) defective ...

Objective To establish normative ranges for fetal brain volume (FBV) and investigate its relationship with gestational age, using MRI to improve the understanding of fetal brain development. Design A ...