Archives of Disease in Childhood: 107 (11)
November 2022 – Volume 107 – 11 Highlights from this issue Atoms (19 October, 2022) Free Global child health Vitamin D deficiency in South-East Asian children: a systematic review (9 June,…
November 2022 – Volume 107 – 11 Highlights from this issue Atoms (19 October, 2022) Free Global child health Vitamin D deficiency in South-East Asian children: a systematic review (9 June,…
### Key points A 2-year-old child is brought to the emergency department with a barking cough, subcostal recessions and intermittent stridor. Concerned about the symptoms,…
Objective To determine the accuracy of two developmental screening questionnaires to detect cognitive or language delay, defined using the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler…
Parasitic infections and the medications used to treat them may be unfamiliar to many paediatricians. Parasitic infections, however, are not uncommonly seen in children in…
Objective Caffeine is widely used in preterm infants to prevent or treat apnoea of prematurity. Adverse gastrointestinal effects of caffeine have not been thoroughly researched…
Objective To estimate the number of patients on paediatric wards in England who received nasogastric tube (NGT) feeding under physical restraint from April 2022 to…
Deferring cord clamping (DCC) at birth reduces mortality in preterm infants by around a third.1 This extraordinary reduction in mortality occurs in babies of all…
In 2015, both the European Resuscitation Council and the American Heart Association neonatal resuscitation guidelines recommended delayed cord clamping (DCC) for term and preterm neonates.…
The largest randomised controlled trial (RCT) of neonatal caffeine therapy, the Caffeine for Apnea of Prematurity (CAP) trial, evaluated caffeine citrate at a loading dose…
Objective To compare reintubation rates after planned extubation and unplanned extubation (UE) in patients in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), to analyse risk factors for…
An infant was delivered vaginally at 37+2 weeks gestation, weighing 2620 g. Her antenatal course was uncomplicated. She was noted at delivery to have hyperextended knees…