... Infant Newborn History Abandoned infants Wet nursing Foundling hospitals Medical research Anatomy Rome The collapsing West-Roman Empire left behind conflicting heritages all over Europe. Patria potestas , however, the father’s right to dispose, sell, or kill his children...

... radiography with point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in determining lung expansion. Methods: This prospective study included newborns who required HFOV and were monitored in a neonatal intensive care unit. A single neonatologist assessed lung expansion with CXR and POCUS to measure the costal level of the right...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2023 Preterm infant Newborn Immunity Microbiome Host defense Immunity The skin is the largest epithelial organ of the body and acts as physical barrier...

...Joy E Lawn; Zulfiqar A. Bhutta; Chinyere Ezeaka; Ola Saugstad Introduction: The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.2 aims for every country to reach a neonatal mortality rate (NMR) of ≤12/1,000 live births by 2030. More than 60 countries are off track, and 2.3 million newborns still die each year...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2022 Pulse oxygen saturation Newborn Altitude Pulse oximetry is a critical tool in guiding the use of supplemental oxygen for sick newborns as it offers a real-time and noninvasive estimation of arterial oxygen saturation...

...). Acute kidney injury Therapeutic hypothermia Newborn Perinatal asphyxia Creatinine Precision medicine Reference values Perinatal asphyxia is a condition at delivery, caused by oxygen deprivation. When sufficiently long or severe, this can result in neonatal encephalopathy (NE...

... infants and the effect of gestational age. Methods: This multicentre prospective observational study was performed with newborns born before 33 weeks of gestation. We created two groups: group 1 (23–27 weeks) and group 2 (28–32 weeks). We compared LUSs between the groups from birth until 36 weeks...

...Toshihiko Ikuta; Sota Iwatani; Takahiro Okutani; Seiji Yoshimoto Background: To diagnose hypoalbuminemia in newborns, it is essential to establish a definition applicable to those with a different gestational age (GA) and clinical conditions. A positive correlation between serum albumin levels...

.... Infant Newborn Lung recruitment High-frequency oscillation High-frequency oscillation (HFO) may be used in preterm infants with respiratory failure due to respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) or evolving bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) [1]. HFO utilizes small tidal volumes (Vt) while avoiding...

... to SARS-CoV-2-positive mothers admitted to 2 hospitals in South (Bari) and North (Varese) of Italy from April to December 2020. A molecular nasopharyngeal swab for SARS-CoV-2 using a reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction was made at birth for all enrolled newborns to evaluate vertical...

... Newborn Incidence Hypothermia The incidence of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) reported is inaccurate even in developed countries, ranging from 1 to 8 per 1,000 live births [1]. Updated incidence rates are desirable to audit obstetric management guidelines and to guide policies so...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Infant Newborn Palliative care Deep sedation Though infant mortality under the age of 1 is relatively low (e.g., 3.2 out of 1,000 births in Flanders in 2016) [1], the impact on parents, family members, and health-care...

... Periventricular leukomalacia COVID-19 Newborn SARS-CoV-2 infections may be transmitted in utero and in the perinatal period. Multisystem inflammatory syndromes can occur after SARS-CoV-2 infections, particularly in the first 2 decades of life. SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy may...

...Marlies Bruckner; Gianluca Lista; Ola D. Saugstad; Georg M. Schmölzer Approximately 800,000 newborns die annually due to birth asphyxia. The resuscitation of asphyxiated term newly born infants often occurs unexpected and is challenging for healthcare providers as it demands experience...

...Geza Vass; Ria Evans Fry; Charles C. Roehr Chylothorax is a rare but life-threatening condition in newborns, often requiring a prolonged hospital stay. To date, no unified guidance exists for best management approach. Octreotide, a somatostatin analogue, has been used to treat neonatal chylothorax...

... to in the content or advertisements. Electrostatic filters Continuous positive airway pressure Noninvasive ventilation Pressure Infant Newborn SARS-CoV-2 originated in Wuhan, China, in November 2020 [ 1 ]. The clinical disease, COVID-19, was declared a global pandemic by WHO in March 2020 [ 2...

...Alexander Simma; Antonia Potapow; Susanne Brandstetter; Holger Michel; Michael Melter; Birgit Seelbach-Göbel; Christian Apfelbacher; Michael Kabesch; Stephan Gerling; the KUNO Kids Study Group Introduction: Newborn sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has failed to decrease in the last decades...

.... Newborn Creatinine Acute kidney injury Reference values Research Briefings Neonatology 2020;117:637 640 DOI: 10.1159/000510658 Received: May 26, 2020 Accepted: August 4, 2020 Published online: September 22, 2020 Creatinine at Birth Correlates with Gestational Age and Birth Weight: Another Factor...

... in the placebo group (control group). Three newborns, 2 in the intervention group and 1 in the control group, died before completing the 5 days of randomization (Fig.  1 ). Fig. 1. CONSORT flow chart diagram intention to treat (ITT). Fig. 1. CONSORT flow chart diagram intention to treat (ITT...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Newborn Anti-epileptic drugs Seizures Amplitude-integrated electroencephalography Neonatal seizures are a frequent problem in a neonatal care setting and are associated with increased long-term morbidity and mortality...