Breast feeding improves important outcomes for mothers and infants. In the UK, breastfeeding rates have historically been low, particularly among socially disadvantaged young women. Although there ...

Background: Measurements of the subarachnoid space during routine cranial sonography may provide an indirect method of monitoring brain growth in preterm infants. Methods: The width of the ...

3 Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, National Neonatal Audit Programme, London, UK Methods We obtained data from the National Neonatal Research Database. We used logistic regression to ...

AIM To compare the efficacy and safety of an indomethacin treatment strategy based on serial echocardiographic measurement of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) flow pattern with a standard protocol.

2 Institute of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy Non-invasive high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (NHFOV) consists of the application of a bias ...

Correspondence to Dr Catherine M Harrison, Neonatology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, LS1 3EX, UK; catherine.harrison10{at}nhs.net The WHO estimates that 15 million babies are born ...

Objective To determine whether extending caffeine therapy through 43 weeks’ postmenstrual age (PMA) decreases intermittent hypoxia (IH) in convalescing preterm infants. Secondary objectives were to ...

Objective To evaluate the prevalence of acute peripartum twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) in vaginally born monochorionic (MC) twin pregnancies, comparing early cord clamping (ECC) to delayed ...

Objectives While antibiotics save lives in infants with sepsis, up to 12.0% of non-infected term and late preterm infants are exposed to antibiotics underscoring diagnostic challenges in early onset ...

Objective To compare management recommendations of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines with the Kaiser Permanente sepsis risk calculator (SRC) for risk of early ...

Trial design A randomised, parallel group, pragmatic trial. Setting A large UK maternity hospital. Participants Term infants <2 weeks old with a mild or moderate degree of tongue-tie, and their ...

1 Department of Paediatrics, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China 2 University Children's Hospital, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany Correspondence to Christian P Speer, ...