At her mother's insistence, Baby K was intubated and placed on mechanical ventilation at birth. [15] In conjunction with an ethics committee, the physicians recommended a do not resuscitate order. [16 ...

In the very low birth weight (VLBW) neonate, the relationship between systemic blood pressure and organ blood flow is complex, especially in the immediate postnatal period. Although some information ...

LEVELS of total reducing substance, true sugar and glucose have been measured in the blood of newborn infants since 1911. The early reports have been reviewed by Norval et al. 1, 2 Although an ...

Neonatal patients often require long-term vascular access for the delivery of life-sustaining medications and nutrition. The peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) offers several advantages ...

Adults self-report their pain on a one to 10 numerical score, while children can point to an equivalent face scale - from a green smiling face to a red crying face - to indicate their pain. Newborns, ...

In Canada, the incidence of Lyme disease among children is increasing, and the disease may be seen in neonates. Early localized Lyme disease is a clinical diagnosis; serology at this stage of disease ...

Disclosure: No potential conflicts of interest disclosed. Embryology of the penile urethra. (A) The undifferentiated state. (B) Fusion of the genital folds from posterior to anterior. (C) Closure of ...

A new minimally invasive technique greatly enhances the ability to measure neonate turtle sex ratios. This is the first time that differences in sex-specific protein expression patterns have been ...