Pneumonia contributes to between 750 000 and 1.2 million neonatal deaths and an unknown number of stillbirths each year world wide. The aetiology depends on time of onset. Gram negative bacilli ...

Vaginal birth after Caesarean Section (VBAC) carries risks of uterine rupture, with increased perinatal mortality risk. When labour is induced there may be higher uterine rupture and repeat caesarean ...

2 Division of Child Health, St George's, University of London, London, UK 3 MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, University College London – Institute of Child Health, London, UK 4 Paediatric ...

3 Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK 4 School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK 5 Neonatal Unit, Birmingham Women's ...

Background The original bubble continuous positive airway pressure (bCPAP) design has wide-bore tubing and a low-resistance interface. This creates a stable airway pressure that is reflected by the ...

Division of Neonatal–Perinatal Medicine, Babies and Children's Hospital of New York, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 3959 Broadway, BHN-1201, New York, NY 10032 USA AIMS To ...

AIMS To compare the perinatal mortality and morbidity of infants with twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) with those of gestation matched twin controls and to assess the neurodevelopmental outcome ...

Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada Correspondence to Dr B Lemyre, Division of Neonatology, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401, Smyth Road, Ottawa, ...

1 Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, PO Box 4345, Christchurch, New Zealand 2 Department of Pediatrics, Christchurch School of Medicine and ...

3 Department of Woman and Child Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 4 Department of Medical Physics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 5 Department of Pediatric ...

Persistent patency of the ductus arteriosus in the preterm infant is associated with numerous morbidities, including higher rates of bronchopulmonary dysplasia and increased mortality. These strong ...

Objective: To describe the outcome of labour, signs of life at birth, and duration of survival after delivery at 20–23 weeks gestation. Design: An observational study using data from the Confidential ...