Context In spontaneously breathing preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) receiving nasal continuous positive airway pressure, a method of less invasive surfactant administration ...

Correspondence to Dr A B te Pas, Division of Neonatology, Department of Paediatrics, Leiden University Medical Centre, J6-S, PO box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, the Netherlands; a.b.te_pas{at}lumc.nl ...

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 ...

OBJECTIVE To study the long term neurodevelopmental outcome of children who participated in a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled study of early postnatal dexamethasone treatment for ...

Correspondence to Dr James William Harrison Webbe, Academic Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK; j.webbe{at}imperial.ac.uk Background Neonatal research evaluates many different ...

Background Use of bubble continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) has generated considerable interest in neonatal care, but its comparative effectiveness compared with other forms of CPAP, ...

1 Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK 2 Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK 3 Directorate of Women's Services, ...

Correspondence to Maria Quigley, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK; maria.quigley{at}npeu.ox.ac.uk Objective To investigate ...

Setting and subjects This study was conducted at a public safety-net hospital in California with a regional level III NICU. Our study included preterm infants <33 weeks’ GA who received ≥30 s DCC and ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil 2 Division of Neonatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil ...

Healthcare decisions should be based on all relevant evidence.1 Usually, this is provided by randomised controlled trials (RCTs) comparing two or more interventions for a condition affecting a target ...

Supplemental oxygen is a safe and effective treatment for infants with established chronic lung disease who are not at risk of further progression of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Oxygen ...