Objective To determine the feasibility of passive cooling to initiate therapeutic hypothermia before and during transport. Methods Consensus guidelines were developed for passive cooling at the ...

Bettina Bohnhorst, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, D-30625 Hannover; bohnhorst.bettina{at}mh-hannover.de Background: Early ...

4 Department of Child Health, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK 5 Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Children's Hospital for Wales, Cardiff, UK Correspondence to Dr Peter ...

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 ...

Objective: To determine the effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure on birth outcomes. Design: A systematic review and meta-analysis was performed in accordance with MOOSE guidelines.

Department of Neonatology, Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to Dr Gopi Menon, Department of Neonatology, Simpson Centre for ...

7 St George’s University NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Benjamin Cailes, Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, St George’s University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London ...

AIM To define the origin and the natural history of innocent heart murmurs in newborn infants. METHODS Fifty healthy babies born at term with the clinical diagnosis of an innocent heart murmur and 50 ...

AIM To investigate whether lymphocytes or serum inflammatory markers are associated with obstructive lung disease and bronchial lability in schoolchildren born very preterm. METHOD Lymphocyte subsets ...

Newborn Services Department, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA Correspondence to Dr Mohamed A Mohamed, Newborn Services Department, The George Washington University ...

1 Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2 Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 3 Department of Epidemiology and ...

Introduction Forty per cent of global child deaths occur in the neonatal period. Low and middle income countries need effective and simple methods to improve hospital-based neonatal care. Bubble ...