Definitions. In the UK, a stillbirth is legally defined as the birth of a baby with no signs of life at, or after, 24 completed weeks of gestation.. For consistency, we have used the term ‘fetus’ to ...

Opportunities for paediatric trainees to learn and maintain the skill of neonatal intubation are continually decreasing due to advances in perinatal and neonatal care. Internationally, success rates ...

AIM To determine whether patient triggered ventilation (PTV) leads to greater exposure to significant hypocarbia than conventional ventilation (CMV) in premature infants during the first 72 hours of ...

Objective To evaluate if postnatal treatment with betamethasone in extremely preterm infants was associated with neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI) at 6.5 years of age. Design Prospective cohort ...

AIM To determine whether vitamin K1, which is routinely administered to neonates, could act as an exogenous oxidising agent and be partly responsible for haemolysis in glucose-6-phosphat-dehydrogenase ...

Objective To describe the use and nationwide variation of red blood cell (RBC) transfusions in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) following the introduction of the revised national transfusion ...

Objective Following very preterm birth, some children require ongoing intensive care after the neonatal period and transition directly from neonatal units (NNUs) to paediatric intensive care units ...

Editor—It is common practice to flush a central venous catheter (CVC) manually when occlusion is suspected. The manufacturers of one silastic CVC commonly used in neonatal units recommend a maximum ...

Objectives To determine the incidence of and risk factors for neonatal unit admission, intrapartum stillbirth or neonatal death without admission, and describe outcomes, in babies born in an alongside ...

Background: Strategies for the surgical management of necrotising enterocolitis are various and controversial. Objective: To characterise variation in surgical management of this disease across the ...

Intermittent hypoxaemia (IH) events are well described in extremely preterm infants, but the occurrence of IH patterns in more mature preterm infants remains unclear. The objective of this study was ...

AIM To determine whether those most easily reviewed in a population prevalence study differ from those followed up only with difficulty. METHODS All babies born before 32 weeks of gestation in the ...