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 ...

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 ...

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 Therapeutic hypothermia is recommended as the standard of care for the management of hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) (REF). The true value of clinical trials lies in their ...

Correspondence to Janneke Dekker, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA Leiden, the Netherlands; j.dekker{at}lumc.nl Background ...

Correspondence to Dr Monica Lemmon, Pediatrics and Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA; monica.lemmon{at}duke.edu Objective Neonates with seizures ...

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 ...

Objective Evaluate the incidence of and risk factors for behavioural problems in twin–twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) survivors treated with fetoscopic laser coagulation. Design Observational cohort ...

Objective: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of cranial ultrasound (CUS) for detection of neonatal arterial territory cerebral infarction in term infants. Methods: CUS scans from term infants with ...

Correspondence to Dr HL Yates, Neonatal Unit, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Clarendon Wing, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK; dave.helen{at}fsmail.net Postnatal steroids have been widely ...