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Outbreaks of extended spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in neonatal intensive care units: a systematic review

Correspondence to Dr Patrick JM Stapleton, Department of Microbiology, Temple Street Children's University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin 1, Ireland; patstaps{at}gmail.com Objective To establish the ...
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Letter: How deep is too deep and how long is too long? The effect of haemoglobin concentration on buffering capacity during desaturation in preterm infants (5 August, 2025) ...
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Preterm infants: immunity and immunisation

Preterm birth affects around 7–8% of pregnancies in the UK. There are immunological consequences of preterm birth, epidemiological differences in infectious diseases in the preterm population and ...
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The fetal and neonatal hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis

Department of Paediatrics, Level 6, Clinical Science Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, Peoples Republic of China ...
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Donor breast milk versus infant formula for preterm infants: systematic review and meta-analysis

Correspondence to: Maria Quigley National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK; maria.quigley{at}npeu.ox.ac.uk Objectives: To compare the ...
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Neonatal brain injuries in England: population-based incidence derived from routinely recorded clinical data held in the National Neonatal Research Database

Objective In 2015, the Department of Health in England announced an ambition to reduce ‘brain injuries occurring during or soon after birth’. We describe the development of a pragmatic case definition ...
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Feasibility of and experience using a portable MRI scanner in the neonatal intensive care unit

Objective A portable, low-field MRI system is now Food and Drug Administration cleared and has been shown to be safe and useful in adult intensive care unit settings. No neonatal studies have been ...
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School-age outcomes of children without cerebral palsy cooled for neonatal hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy in 2008–2010

Objective Since therapeutic hypothermia became standard care for neonatal hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE), even fewer infants die or have disability at 18-month assessment than in the clinical ...
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Combined EEG, aEEG and MRI biomarkers in the neonatal period to predict neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants with neonatal encephalopathy: a diagnostic test accuracy ...

Objective To assess the predictive accuracy of early neurophysiological and neuroimaging biomarkers, alone and in combination, for adverse neurodevelopmental disorders in term-born infants with ...
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Core outcomes in neonatology: development of a core outcome set for neonatal research

Correspondence to Dr James William Harrison Webbe, Academic Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK; j.webbe{at}imperial.ac.uk Background Neonatal research evaluates many different ...
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Parental experiences of decision-making in the grey zones of neonatal intensive care: a multicentre mixed methodology phenomenological study

Objective Decision-making in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is complex. In grey zones (where there are multiple morally acceptable pathways), families and clinicians may disagree about the ...
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Effect of different feeding approaches on growth, neonatal morbidities, mortality and neurodevelopmental outcome in preterm infants: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

7 Faculty of Medicine Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr El-sheikh, Egypt 8 Zagazig University Faculty of Human Medicine, Zagazig, Egypt 9 Faculty of Medicine Kutahya Health Science University, Kutahya, ...