May 2010
48 posts
Contribution of bacteriology and virology in... →
Objective To appraise the inter-agency protocol used in sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) cases in South Yorkshire, UK.
Design A retrospective audit of 121 postmortems carried out over a…
Does sweat volume influence the sweat test result? →
Objective Low volume sweat samples are considered unreliable for the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis, based on the assertion that sweat conductivity and chloride are reduced at lower sweating rates….
Recent skin injuries in children with motor... →
Objective To determine the frequency of recent skin injuries in children with neuromotor disabilities and its association with disability.
Design Cross-sectional study of 168 children with…
The role of inhaled corticosteroids and... →
Objective To compare the efficacy of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) versus montelukast (MONT) in schoolchildren and adolescents with mild–moderate persistent asthma.
Methods Randomised,…
Developmental and epilepsy outcomes at age 4 years... →
Background Infantile spasms is the name given to a difficult to treat, severe infantile epilepsy with high morbidity. The United Kingdom Infantile Spasms Study (UKISS) showed that absence of…
What are the clinical and radiological... →
Aim Systematic review of ‘What are the clinical and radiological characteristics of inflicted spinal injury?’
Methods Literature search of 20 electronic databases, websites, references and…
Readmission in children's emergency care: an... →
Aim To compare rates of emergency readmission following discharge for common paediatric conditions from a range of hospital services.
Design Retrospective analysis of hospital episode statistics…
Infant feeding practice and childhood cognitive... →
Aim Several studies have suggested a beneficial effect of infant breastfeeding on childhood cognitive function. The main objective was to examine whether duration of breastfeeding and age at…
Sirolimus and tuberous sclerosis-associated renal... →
Tuberous sclerosis, caused by germline mutations in the TSC1 or TSC2 genes, is associated with aberrant upregulation of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signalling pathway, resulting in…
The epidemiology of progressive intellectual and... →
Objective To study the epidemiology of diseases that cause progressive intellectual and neurological deterioration (PIND) in UK children.
Design Since May 1997, the authors have performed active…
Question 2 Is capillary refill time a useful... →
Flu vaccination for ex-preterms and infants under... →
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Lucina →
Phenotypic definitions of the cerebral palsies and... →
Redundancy of roles by physicians in charge of... →
Towards evidence based medicine for paediatricians →
Child protection medical assessments: why do we do... →
Introduction Child protection guidelines highlight the importance of medical assessments for children suspected of having been abused.
Aim To identify how medical assessments might contribute to…
Question 3 In patients with spontaneous... →
Question 1 Do lycra garments improve function and... →
Assuring validity of multisource feedback in a... →
Objective To report the evidence for and challenges to the validity of Sheffield Peer Review Assessment Tool (SPRAT) with paediatric Specialist Registrars (SpRs) across the UK as part of Royal…
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Determinants of child health and development: the... →
Britain has a unique experience of national longitudinal birth cohorts, but the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children differed in two major respects—it was based in one area rather than…
Revalidation for paediatricians: important lessons... →
Assessment of doctors' consultation skills in the... →
Objective To determine the utility of a novel Paediatric Consultation Assessment Tool (PCAT).
Design Developed to measure clinicians’ communication behaviour with children and their…
Is ethnicity a risk factor for severe retinopathy... →
Objective To assess the risk of severe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) requiring treatment in different ethnic groups.
Design Retrospective observational study on ROP screening and treatment….
Changes in heart rate in the first minutes after... →
The normal range of heart rate (HR) in the first minutes after birth has not been defined.
Objective To describe the HR changes of healthy newborn infants in the delivery room (DR) detected by…
The effect of fluconazole prophylaxis in very low... →
Background The validity and applicability of before-after studies compared to randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of fluconazole prophylaxis for very low birthweight (VLBW) infants is uncertain.
Accuracy of amplitude integrated EEG in a neonatal... →
Objective To determine the sensitivity and specificity of amplitude integrated electroencephalogram (aEEG) compared to simultaneous standard electroencephalogram (sEEG) for seizure detection and…
Cool treatment for birth asphyxia, but what's... →
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Changes in care and outcome of very preterm babies... →
Objective To assess evolution in the care and health of very preterm babies between 1998 and 2003 after implementation of a regionalisation policy in France.
Design Comparison of two…
Evaluating and comparing neonatal outcomes →
Additional value of two-channel amplitude... →
Background Amplitude integrated electroencephalography (aEEG) is a valuable tool for evaluating neonatal encephalopathy and identifying electrographic seizures.
Objective To compare seizure…
Prognosis for neonates with enterovirus... →
Objective To assess the severity of the disease and the long-term cardiac prognosis for neonates who developed enterovirus (EV) myocarditis within the first weeks of life.
Design Clinical…
Study leave budgets: accessing the money →
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Perinatal Outcome of Preterm Infants →
Objective In vitro fertilisation (IVF) pregnancies are at increased risk for adverse perinatal outcome including very low birth weight infants. The purpose of this study was to find out whether…
Long-term outcome after neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic... →
Outcome of full-term infants with neonatal encephalopathy of hypoxic-ischemic origin is often assessed in infancy or early childhood and data on outcome in childhood and adolescence is limited. MRI…
Growth and somatic health until adulthood of low... →
Objective To compare trajectories for growth and somatic health characteristics until adulthood of non-handicapped low birthweight (LBW) and normal birthweight (NBW) children.
Study design …
Prospective study of non-nutritive sucking and... →
Objective The aim of the present work was to assess the value of non-nutritive sucking (NNS) measures as predictors of oral feeding performance in comparison to other putative predictors of…
Regional tissue oxygenation in association with... →
Objective To assess the effect of the duration of spontaneous hypoxic episodes and variations in haemodynamic parameters on cerebral and renal tissue oxygenation (rSo2C and rSo2R) in clinically…
Neonatal testicular trauma: scrotal rupture →
Testicular damage, resulting from birth injury, is extremely rare. We present a case of scrotal rupture following a trail of vaginal breech delivery.