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Blood cultures in newborns and children: optimising an everyday test

Correspondence to: Dr Buttery, Clinical Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia; butteryj{at}cryptic.rch.unimelb.edu.au ...
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Preliminary evaluation of a new technique of minimally invasive surfactant therapy

Objective To investigate a method of minimally invasive surfactant therapy (MIST) to be used in spontaneously breathing preterm infants on continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), evaluating the ...
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Jaundice in low birthweight infants: pathobiology and outcome

1 Division of Neonatology and Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA 2 Department of Pediatrics, William ...
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Hyponatraemia in the newborn

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What is network meta-analysis?

Healthcare decisions should be based on all relevant evidence.1 Usually, this is provided by randomised controlled trials (RCTs) comparing two or more interventions for a condition affecting a target ...
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Effect of storage on breast milk antioxidant activity

1 Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA 2 Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, St Peter’s University ...
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Thickening milk feeds may cause necrotising enterocolitis

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Range of UK practice regarding thresholds for phototherapy and exchange transfusion in neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia

Objective: To establish the range of opinion regarding thresholds at which phototherapy and exchange transfusion are used to treat neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia in the UK. Design: A survey of existing ...
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Ultrasonographic study of ductus venosus in healthy neonates

AIM To assess ultrasonographically the flow pattern and the time of postnatal closure of ductus venosus related to the other fetal shunts. METHODS Fifty healthy, term neonates were studied from day 1 ...
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Parent reports as developmental outcome measures in neonatal trials: the way forward?

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Less invasive surfactant administration (LISA): chances and limitations

Non-invasive ventilation and especially the application of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) has become standard for the treatment of premature infants with respiratory problems. However, ...
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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 ...