Background Targeted testing for cytomegalovirus (CMV) in preterm infants <21 days has two benefits: timely congenital CMV (cCMV) diagnosis, and differentiation between cCMV and postnatal CMV (pCMV).

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 ...

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 ...

Objectives To assess the minimum incidence of life-threatening bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), defined as need for positive pressure respiratory support or pulmonary vasodilators at 38 weeks ...

Objective To evaluate the effect of opioid analgesics, compared to placebo, no drug, or other non-opioid analgesics or sedatives, on pain, duration of mechanical ventilation, mortality, growth and ...

The surveillance of congenital anomalies serves two main purposes: to facilitate the identification of teratogenic (malformation causing) exposures and to assess the impact of primary prevention and ...

Division of Neonatal Services, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne 3053, Australia Dr M W Davies, Perinatal Research Centre, The Royal Women's Hospital, Bowen Bridge Road, Herston, Brisbane, QLD 4029, ...

Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care unit, Trousseau Hospital For Children, 26 Av Du Dr Netter, 75571 Paris Cedex 12, France; paul.nolent{at}trs.ap-hop-paris.fr Neonatal paracetamol poisoning is rare ...

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Metabolic bone disease of prematurity (MBDP) is characterised by skeletal demineralisation, and in severe cases it can result in fragility fractures of long bones and ribs during routine handling.

Correspondence to Dr Camilla Gizzi, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric and Neonatal Department, “S.Giovanni Calibita” Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Piazza Confienza, 3 Rome 00185, Italy; ...

Correspondence to Dr Serafina Perrone, Neonatal Care Unit, Department of Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University Hospital of Siena, Viale M. Bracci 16, 53100 Siena, Italy; saraspv{at}yahoo.it ...