Correspondence to Dr Sarah A Coggins, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; cogginss{at}chop.edu Objective To determine whether culture yield and time to positivity ...

Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Medical School, Southern New Hampshire Medical Center, Nashua, NH 03062, USA Dr Hermansen, Dartmouth Medical School, Southern New Hampshire Medical Center, 8 ...

AIMS To study the distribution of clinically important red cell antibodies in pregnancy, and the associated fetal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. METHODS The case notes of women with clinically ...

AIMS To design and evaluate dosing guidelines for vancomycin based on data collected during routine use of the drug. METHODS Following the observation that 66% of neonatal vancomycin trough ...

Department of Health Sciences, Section of Health Law, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands Correspondence to A A Eduard Verhagen, Beatrix Children’s Hospital/University ...

Correspondence to: Dr Subhedar NICU, Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Crown Street, Liverpool L8 7SS, UK; nvsubhedar_lwh{at}yahoo.com If you wish to reuse any or all of ...

Objective There are no large studies evaluating pulmonary haemorrhage (PH) in premature infants. We sought to quantify the clinical characteristics, morbidities and mortality associated with early PH.

Dr Hayakawa, Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Neonatology, Ogaki Municipal Hospital 4-86, Minaminokawamachi, Ogaki, Gifu-Pref, 503-8502, Japanmasahaya{at}med.nagoya-u.ac.jp AIMS To clarify the ...

1 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda–Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University Department of Mother and Infant Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy 2 Neonatal Intensive ...

Objectives: To examine the characteristics of incident reporting systems in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in relation to type, aetiology, outcome and preventability of incidents. Methods: ...

AIM To study the effect of enteral feeding on splanchnic blood flow velocity in preterm infants. METHOD Coeliac axis and superior mesenteric artery (SMA) blood flow velocity were measured ...

AIM To compare the efficacy of hydrocortisone with dopamine for the treatment of hypotensive, very low birthweight (VLBW) infants. METHODS Forty infants were randomly allocated to receive either ...