Breastfeeding recommended as primary neonatal analgesic in low resource settings
1. Breastfeeding was recommended as a first-line neonatal analgesic for procedures done in non-tertiary care in Kenya. 2. When breastfeeding ...
Tag: neonatal intensive care
Maternal gratitude linked to improved medical staff functioning
Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) medical staff who were exposed to maternal expressions of gratitude had higher scores in procedural ...
Study finds that pediatric residents rarely perform neonatal intubation
1. Advance practitioners and neonatal fellows had the highest rates of neonatal tracheal intubation (TI) attempts in the neonatal intensive ...
Wide international variation in survival for periviable neonates
1. Survival of neonates born at 22 weeks’ gestation ranged from 1.8 to 22.3% using all live births as the ...
Atropine plus propofol similar to atropine plus atracurium and sufentanil for non-emergent intubation in neonates
1. In this randomized controlled trial, the frequency of prolonged desaturation during neonatal, nonemergent intubation was similar between atropine plus ...
Low dose hydrocortisone not associated with adverse neurodevelopment in extremely preterm infants
1. Among extremely preterm infants, low-dose hydrocortisone was not associated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes at 2 years of age. Evidence ...
Study suggests shift away from pharmacologic management of patent ductus arteriosus
1. Between 2008 and 2014, rates of pharmacologic treatment or pharmacologic plus surgical ligation of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in ...
Periviable infants are becoming more likely to survive without neurodevelopmental impairment
1. Periviable infants born from 2008-2011 survived to 18-22 months corrected age at a higher rate than those born from ...
Antenatal steroids improved outcomes in a dose-dependent manner in extremely premature infants
1. Based on this prospective cohort study, use of antenatal steroids (ANS) was linked to improved mortality and neurologic outcomes, ...
CPAP is superior to nasal high-flow therapy as primary support for preterm infants
1. Preterm infants receiving primary respiratory support had treatment failure at a significantly higher rate when treated with nasal high-flow ...