Correspondence to: Dr Gottstein, Neonatal Unit, Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Crown Street, Liverpool L8 7SS, UK; rgottstein{at}btinternet.com Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of high dose ...

High osmolality of infant feed reflects a high concentration of solute particles and has been implicated as a cause of necrotising enterocolitis. Evidence for direct intestinal mucosal injury as a ...

Background Systemic corticosteroids as the frontline treatment of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in preterm infants are associated with adverse effects on growth and neurodevelopmental outcome, ...

Department of Child Health Bristol University Southmead Hospital Bristol BS 10 5NB Professor Peter Dunn. If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use ...

Background Neonatal healthcare professionals require frequent simulation-based education (SBE) to improve their cognitive, psychomotor and communication skills during neonatal resuscitation. However, ...

Correspondence to Dr David G Sweet, Neonatal Unit, Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, Belfast, UK; david.sweet{at}belfasttrust.hscni.net What should neonatologists do now, while acknowledging that we ...

Objective To study the organisms causing early and late onset neonatal sepsis, with special reference to multi-drug resistant gram negative bacilli, at two neonatal units (one urban, one rural) in ...

Correspondence to Dr Jeroen Dudink, Erasmus Medical Center—Sophia, Dr. Molewaterplein 60, Rotterdam 3015 GJ, The Netherlands; j.dudink{at}erasmusmc.nl Objective To investigate detection ability and ...

Objective Assessing parent experiences of neonatal services can help improve quality of care; however, there is no formally evaluated UK instrument available to assess this prospectively. Our ...

Objective Human milk composition is dynamic. While extensive research has focused on its macronutrient concentrations during the first 6 months of lactation, limited research exists for extended ...

Objective Survival rates of extremely premature infants are rising, but changes in neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI) rates are unclear. Our objective was to perform a systematic review of ...

OBJECTIVES Primary: to compare sequential and simultaneous breast pumping on volume of milk expressed and its fat content. Secondary: to measure the effect of breast massage on milk volume and fat ...