Exhaled volatile organic compounds predict bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants
1. Exhaled volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at day 3 and day 7 of life in preterm infants (<30 weeks) are ...
Tag: neonatology
Diagnostic tool may help identify cerebral palsy regardless of encephalopathy features
1. In a case-control study, a diagnostic prediction tool was able to identify cerebral palsy with reasonable sensitivity and specificity using ...
Post-operative exclusive human milk diet improves growth in neonates with single ventricle physiology
1. In a small randomized controlled trial, the median velocity of weight gain was significantly higher at 30 days post-operatively in ...
Double embryo transfer may be associated with neonatal risks
1. In a large Swedish cohort of singleton births following the use of assisted reproductive technology, double embryo transfer was ...
Maternal unintentional injury during pregnancy associated with higher risk of cerebral palsy
1. Based on a large cohort study, children born to mothers who had an unintentional injury during pregnancy had a ...
Buprenorphine in pregnancy is associated with lower neonatal risk than methadone
1. The current cohort study found that buprenorphine for treating opioid use disorder during pregnancy was associated with lower neonatal ...
Ceftriaxone use is not associated with increased free bilirubin in term neonates with sepsis
1. In a prospective study of term neonates with sepsis and resolving unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia, ceftriaxone administration did not result in increased ...
Higher doses of vitamin K at birth may decrease vitamin K deficiency in very preterm infants
1. In a randomized controlled trial comparing prophylactic vitamin K doses in 75 very preterm or very low birthweight infants, ...
The use of liquefied petroleum gas versus biomass cookstoves during pregnancy does not influence infant birth weight
1. In comparison to biomass cookstoves, there was no difference in infant birth weight born to participants who used liquefied ...
Parenteral amino acids do not improve outcomes for low-birth-weight infants
1. Among infants with extremely low birth weights, additional amino acids given parenterally did not reduce the risk of neurodisability ...