Background The critically ill obstetric patient poses unique challenges to the healthcare profession. The last confidential enquiry recommended that there should be a properly equipped, staffed and ...

Cardiothoracic Unit, Hospital for Sick Children, London. Inhaled nitric oxide (NO) is a selective pulmonary vasodilator, potentially useful in the treatment of pulmonary hypertension and ...

1 Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Neonatal Unit, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK 2 Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, 22–28 Princess Road ...

Background: Over the past decade more than 120 advanced neonatal nurse practitioners (ANNPs) have graduated from the Southampton based ANNP programme. Objectives: To determine the scope of practice ...

Objective An increasing number of ultrasound departments, often under substantial workload pressures, have stopped scanning for ‘growth’ at term, claiming that ultrasound biometry is not accurate in ...

Objective Neonatal-onset mitochondrial disease has not been fully characterised owing to its heterogeneity. We analysed neonatal-onset mitochondrial disease in Japan to clarify its clinical features, ...

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A study of all 77 995 live births and 1234 stillbirths to mothers living in West Cumbria from 1950 to 1989 found no significant increase in stillbirth risk with distance of mother's residence from the ...

Galen was a brilliant anatomist and pioneer of experimental physiology. His many important discoveries exerted a profound influence on medicine during the next 1400 years. However, his wish to solve ...

Randomised clinical trials show that two injections of corticosteroid into the mother before preterm delivery reduce respiratory distress syndrome, neonatal mortality, and intraventricular haemorrhage ...

METHODS Boys and girls weighing 501–1500 g admitted to the 12 centres of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network were compared. Maternal information and ...

AIM To determine the influence of placental malaria, maternal HIV infection, and maternal hypergammaglobulinaemia on transplacental IgG antibody transfer. METHODS One hundred and eighty ...