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From:International Journal of PediatricsPeer-ReviewedApnoea of prematurity is treated with noninvasive respiratory therapy and methylxanthines. For therapy unresponsive apnoea doxapram is often prescibed in preterm neonates. The duration, dosage and route of...
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From:Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (Vol. 60, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedByline: Aditi. Gupta, Vikas. Khetan Dear Editor, We read with interest the article by Shah et al. [sup][1] They demonstrated that continuous mode large spot transpupillary thermotherapy (LS TTT) was significantly...
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From:Nursing Children and Young People (Vol. 23, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedQueen's University Belfast has developed a needle-free test for premature babies. It believes the research will lead to greater accuracy in prescribing and reduce the trauma of such tests for neonates and their...
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From:Annals of Saudi Medicine (Vol. 31, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedByline: Ayman. Al-Jazaeri, Abdullah. Al-Shehri, Mohammad. Zamakhshary, Abdulrahman. Al-Zahem Background and Objectives: Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS) is a common cause of gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) in...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 24, Issue 41) Peer-ReviewedOver the past two decades, increasing numbers of babies below 24 weeks' gestation have received active resuscitation. Overall survival rates have not changed, but non-survivors have had significantly longer durations of...
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From:Pediatric Health (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Diana E Schendel 1 As the rate of preterm birth (<37 weeks gestation) has risen in recent decades, so has the survival rate among affected infants. This epidemiologic pattern has been remarkably consistent...
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From:Pediatric Health (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Paolo Manzoni [[dagger]] 1 , David A Kaufman 2 , Michael Mostert 3 , Daniele Farina 4 Keywords: Candida; fluconazole; infection; neonate; preterm Despite the ever-increasing efforts to improve their...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1279)An observational pharmacokinetic study conducted in Argentina shows that mercury concentrations in premature infants, following receipt of thiomersal [thimerosal]-containing vaccines, are exceedingly low. (1) In an...
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From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 15, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedFood for Thought was the theme of the Neonatal Nurses' College Aotearoa, NZNO, conference, held over three days in Christchurch fast month. More than 150 people attended from nursing, medicine and midwifery, with...
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From:Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics (Vol. 7, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Jeanne Leventhal Alexander [[dagger]] 1 , Gregg Richardson 2 , Lydia Grypma 3 , Enid M Hunkeler 4 Keywords: arachidonic acid; atrial natriuretic peptide; B12; brain-derived neurotropic factor;...
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From:Pediatric Health (Vol. 1, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Paolo Manzoni 1 Probiotics are defined as: 'live microorganisms which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host' These microorganisms are normally found in the human...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 115, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedCongenital central hypoventilation syndrome with Hirschsprung's disease, also known as Haddad syndrome, is a rare disorder with a variable phenotypic severity. The underlying cause is thought to be an abnormality of...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 115, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor.-- We read with great interest the Pediatrics article published by Wu et al, (1) which showed that very premature infants had sustained optimal protective levels of palivizumab (>40 [micro] g/mL) serum...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 118, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE. Preterm infants may be at particular risk from either inadequate or excessive vitamin K prophylaxis. Our goal was to assess vitamin K status and metabolism in preterm infants after 3 regimens of prophylaxis....
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From:Early Human Development (Vol. 82, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Marked differences are seen in neurological and hearth status, intellectual functioning, school performance and behaviour between children born prematurely and those born at term. Assessment in later childhood...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 20, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedAlthough the overall visual outcome in prematurely born infants is good, reduced visual acuity is greater than in children born full term. Children treated with cryotherapy had the highest risk, but prematurity as such...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 19, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA THINK-TANK has been set up to consider the ethics of prolonging life in fetuses and newborn babies. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics working party will consider issues arising from the care of premature and...
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From:Evidence-Based Nursing (Vol. 4, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedQUESTION: Does developmental care (ie, interventions designed to modify the neonatal intensive care unit [NICU] environment and thereby minimise the stress experienced by preterm infants) reduce adverse outcomes in...
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From:Alternative Medicine Review (Vol. 6, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION: With the increased survival of very low birthweight (VLBW) infants, weighing less than 1500 g at birth, the incidence of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a significant cause of blindness among children in...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 109, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective. In 1976, the Committee on Perinatal Health recommended that hospitals with no neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) or intermediate NICUs transfer high-risk mothers and infants that weigh <2000 g to a regional...