AIMS To quantify the incidence of ventricular septal defect in “low-risk” neonates; and to define any associated risk factors. METHODS One hundred and seventy three patients with ventricular septal ...

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OBJECTIVES Primary: to compare sequential and simultaneous breast pumping on volume of milk expressed and its fat content. Secondary: to measure the effect of breast massage on milk volume and fat ...

High osmolality of infant feed reflects a high concentration of solute particles and has been implicated as a cause of necrotising enterocolitis. Evidence for direct intestinal mucosal injury as a ...

Background Systemic corticosteroids as the frontline treatment of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in preterm infants are associated with adverse effects on growth and neurodevelopmental outcome, ...

AIMS To compare the perinatal mortality and morbidity of infants with twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) with those of gestation matched twin controls and to assess the neurodevelopmental outcome ...

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2 University of Liverpool Institute of Translational Medicine, Liverpool, UK Correspondence to Harriet Corbett, University of Liverpool Institute of Translational Medicine, Child Health, Crown Street, ...

6 Critical Sciences Theme, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr Joyce E O'Shea, Department of Neonatology, Maternity Building, Southern General ...

Tayside Institute of Child Health, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY, Scotland, UK Correspondence to: Dr McGuire, Tayside Institute of Child Health, Ninewells Hospital and Medical ...

Objective Assessing parent experiences of neonatal services can help improve quality of care; however, there is no formally evaluated UK instrument available to assess this prospectively. Our ...

Objective To study the organisms causing early and late onset neonatal sepsis, with special reference to multi-drug resistant gram negative bacilli, at two neonatal units (one urban, one rural) in ...