a preterm female baby with birth weight of 1.5kg was referred to our hospital on day 6 for difficulty in breathing. baby was admitted at birth for respiratory distress and feed intolerance to other hospital and in view of clinical deterioration baby was referred. baby had thrombocytopenia with platelets counts of 11000/ mm3 and high crp titer. baby had petechial haemorrhagic spots all over the ...

ethiopia's childhood mortality has continued to decline although at a swift pace. the drop in urban childhood mortality decline, duration of breastfeeding is the principle reason for the overall decline in mortality trends in ethiopia.  data from the ethiopian demographic and health surveys 2000 and 2005 were used. indirect estimation of brass and trussell's methods were adopted. selected demog...

OBJECTIVE The authors performed a randomised trial in very preterm small-for-gestational age (SGA) babies to determine if prophylaxis with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) improves outcomes (the PROGRAMS trial). Despite increased neutrophil counts following GM-CSF, the authors reported no significant difference in neonatal sepsis-free survival. PATIENTS AND METHODS 28...

Background: Recent years have seen chaos in the neonatology use of antibiotics with diverse opinions and recommendations international guidelines societies. This has created great uncertainty which cases to use, for how long, tests apply make these decisions. We conducted a retrospective cohort study about EpicLatino neonatal units Latin American network database, after noting variations 2019 r...

The practice of adding adjunct analgesic drugs to local anaesthetics for neuraxial block in children is common, especially with caudal blocks. The most commonly used drugs are clonidine, ketamine, and opioids. 2 With the exception of preservative-free morphine, the support for other opioids as an adjunct to single injection caudal block is weak. Other drugs have also been used in this context b...

This paper describes effort towards automatic tissue segmentation in neonatal MRI. Extremely low contrast to noise ratio (CNR), regional intensity changes due to RF coil inhomogeneity and biology, and tissue property changes due to the early myelination and axon pruning processes require a methodology that combines the strength of spatial priors (template atlas), data modelling, and prior knowl...