56 INFANT CARE-CACHE OR CARRY?

Interval or moments: which carry more information?

In many practical situations, we do not have enough observations to uniquely determine the corresponding probability distribution, we only have enough observations to estimate two parameters of this distribution. In such cases, the traditional statistical approach is to estimate the mean and the standard deviation. Alternatively, we can estimate the two bounds that form the range of the corresp...

Cerebrospinal fluid enterovirus testing in infants 56 days or younger.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) enterovirus polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing of febrile neonates is associated with a shorter hospital length of stay (LOS). DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Urban tertiary care children's hospital emergency department. PARTICIPANTS Febrile infants 56 days or younger evaluated by means of lumbar puncture. MAIN EXP...

Scientific rigour: a heavy or light load to carry?

Care of the Premature Infant

The Labor Room It is accepted that the umbilical cord should be clamped early in known and suspected cases of erythroblastosis. When isoimmunization is not a factor, some advocate late clamping to effect a physiologic transfusion. Others say this produces excessive blood volume, which may be a causative factor in the respiratory-distress syndrome. Studies by umbilical-vein catheterization thus ...

[Care of the premature infant].

The Labor Room It is accepted that the umbilical cord should be clamped early in known and suspected cases of erythroblastosis. When isoimmunization is not a factor, some advocate late clamping to effect a physiologic transfusion. Others say this produces excessive blood volume, which may be a causative factor in the respiratory-distress syndrome. Studies by umbilical-vein catheterization thus ...