Management of the delivery of an extremely preterm baby is one of the most challenging aspects of perinatal medicine. The ethical, social, economic and legal issues have recently been reviewed by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.1 The professions and advocates for parents were encouraged to ...
Administration of betamethasoneif preterm birth is anticipated or planned (may cause transient hyperglycemia). Management of Pregestational DM in DELIVERY –When emergency early delivery is indicated, it is important to remember that RDS is more likely to develop than in infants of women without diabe...
These flaws include the inclusion of term and preterm babies who have significantly different risks for infection, not eliminating women with other medical and obstetric complications, and inconsistently and/or inaccurately defining maternal and neonatal infection.[6] Research on factors that are true ...
Respiratory distress in a moderately preterm baby often presents diagnostic and management challenges to the attending paediatrician. Many of these babies will require little or no intervention, but it is known that early intervention in babies with acute respiratory distress often prevents further complic...
Study protocol: baby-OSCAR trial: outcome after Selective early treatment for Closure of patent ductus ARteriosus in preterm babies, a multicentre, masked, randomised placebo-controlled parallel group trial BMC Pediatr, 21 (1) (2021), p. 100 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar [35] S. Gupta, J.P....
Preemie helps Neonatal Intensive Care Units and Human Milk Banks to personalize, track and manage preterm infants' nutrition through human milk analysis.
However three preterm deliveries, one subarachnoid haemorrhage from thrombocytopaenia and one case of Downs syndrome were recorded [10]. Although 10% of neonates in the Hahns series required mechanical ventilation from difficulty with breathing [10], our miniseries did not record any neonatal event ...
Of note, only RCOG refers to the determination of baby’s sex; it highlights the difficulty and doubt that occur frequently, even after the inspection of external genitalia by two experienced healthcare providers, especially when the baby is hydropic, macerated or extremely preterm. In such cases...
Globally, 76,000 women and 500,000 babies die each year from complications of preeclampsia,1 and many more mothers are at risk of medically necessary preterm delivery, intrauterine growth restriction, and other complications. Preeclampsia, a serious medical condition that can occur 20 weeks into a...
PretermNecrotizing enterocolitisEnterocutaneous fistula (ECF) is a serious complication with problems of nutritional maintenance, infection control and wound management. A preterm baby (birth weight 690g) developed ECF after surgery for necrotizing enterocolitis. Conservative treatments including parental ...