According to the guidelines, the infants at highest risk for clinically significant NH are small for gestational age, large for gestational age, born to mothers who have diabetes, or late-preterm. Routine screening and monitoring of blood glucose is recommended only for infants who have these risk...
Present practice guidelines recommend use of surfactants at or soon after birth in preterm infants with symptoms of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). However, the AAP's Committee on Fetus and Newborn notes that recent multicenter randomized controlled trials have shown that CPAP may be an effecti...
taskforceperformedcomprehensivereviewsofthescientificliteratureonumbilicalcordmanagementinpreterm,latepreterm,andtermnewborninfants,andtheoptimaldevicesandinterfacesusedforadministeringpositive-pressureventilationduringresuscitationofnewborninfants.Theserecommendationsprovidenewguidanceontheuseofintactumbilicalcordmilking,device...
Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Recurrent Wheezing in Black Infants Who Were Born Preterm: The D-Wheeze Randomized Clinical Trial Not only when we were on the house staff, but during our visits back to Vanderbilt over the years.doi:10.1542/peds.91.2.513jW. CrookAmerican Academy of Pedia...