Medindia

CRIB-II Score Helps Identify High-Risk Premature Babies Early

An Indian study suggests that the CRIB-II score can help doctors identify premature newborns at greater risk of death soon ...

Every time I discharge a baby from the NICU, I worry about the air they’ll breathe at home

Even small increases in air pollution can increase the risk of serious respiratory illnesses for preterm infants.

Baby 'starts moving' in body bag hours after being declared dead by major hospital

Noah Gabriel da Cruz Santos was pronounced dead at just one month old, but a funeral worker reportedly noticed the baby ...

I'm a Philly neonatologist, and every time I discharge a baby from the NICU, I worry about the air they'll breathe

Discharge day in the neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, should feel like a finish line. After weeks or months of monitors ...

Mum was sent photo of dead baby: NHS trust's mortuary failings explained

One baby was kept in the mortuary for 772 days. The report said: "Their condition was checked 31 days post-death and ...
Legit.ng

WAEC subjects for nursing — what's compulsory, what's optional, and which nursing path leads where

Discover the essential WAEC subjects for nursing in Nigeria and understand programme durations, career paths, and earning ...

Simple antiseptic approach could help prevent deadly infections in newborn babies

A low-cost antiseptic treatment routinely used in health care settings could help reduce the risk of life-threatening ...
The Lancet

Safety and effectiveness of the early-onset sepsis calculator to reduce antibiotic exposure in at-risk newborns: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

bDepartment of Paediatrics, Amsterdam UMC, Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam, Netherlands cDepartment of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC, Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands qDepartment of ...
BMJ

Online clinical tool to estimate risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in extremely preterm infants

Objective Develop an online estimator that accurately predicts bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) severity or death using readily-available demographic and clinical data. Design Retrospective analysis ...