Background: The establishment of a balanced intestinal microflora which may protect against infection is desirable for the preterm infant. Objective: To investigate the effect of a preterm formula ...

3 Neonatal Medicine, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK 4 Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health, Imperial College London, London, UK Objective To ...

Seven-day versus 14-day antibiotic course for culture-proven neonatal sepsis: a multicentre randomised non-inferiority trial in a low and middle-income country ...

Objective To evaluate growth of the triceps surae muscle over the first 12 months of life in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) graduates compared with typically developing (TD) infants. Design ...

OBJECTIVE To develop and validate a scale suitable for use in clinical practice as a tool for assessing prolonged pain in premature infants. METHODS Pain indicators identified by observation of ...

Background Increasingly, preterm-born children are entering adulthood as survival at earlier gestational ages improves. However, there is little understanding of the lived experience in preterm-born ...

Dr B Glaser, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Hadassah University Hospital, PO Box 12000, Jerusalem, Israel email: beng{at}cc.huji.ac.il Congenital hyperinsulinism (HI) is a clinically and ...

Antibiotic stewardship programmes aim to optimise antimicrobial use to prevent the emergence of resistance species and protect patients from the side effects of unnecessary medication. The high ...

1 Division of Neonatology, Department of Paediatrics, Centre Hospitalier University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland 2 Paediatric Surgery, Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital of ...

Objective This study aimed to assess whether additional enteral docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplementation, with or without arachidonic acid (ARA), influences morbidities diagnosed in the neonatal ...

Seven neonates required intensive care at our institution with enterovirus myocarditis, 2001–2003. Presentation was at a median age of 9 days. All had ischaemic electrocardiograms, poor ventricular ...

aDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, bBritish Colombia Research Institute for Children’s and Women’s Health, Vancouver, Canada Dr Dagmar ...