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Implementation FO Australia's 1st Webcam in a NICU
Background: The implications for families of a baby cared for in a neonatal intensive care unit include physical and emotional separation and alienation from their baby, which strains the early parent-infant bond...
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Experience with using 30% O2 to Resuscitate Premature Infants
Background: Studies have shown that resuscitation of term infants using 21%O2 is as safe as 100% O2 and may be advantageous. There is a paucity of information available on the use of oxygen to resuscitate preterm...
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351 Predicting Neonatal and Infant Morbidity After Perinatal Hypoxicischaemic Injury
Background: Perinatal asphyxia is a common cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality, affecting 2-4 in 1000 term live births each year. The prediction of neurodevelopmental outcome is important for prognosis a...
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Idiopathic slow transit constipation is rare
We hypothesise that constipated children would be more likely to come from a socially deprived background. We also hypothesise that a percentage of children with resistant constipation would have a congenital ...
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196 Successful Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension with Sildenafil in a Neonate with Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia Congenita
INTRODUCTION Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) remains an important cause of mortality and morbidity in the term neonate. The severity of the illness and the outcome are related to the un...
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197 Double Trouble: A Case of Proximal Tubular Dysgenesis in a Donor Survivor of Twin-To-Twin Transfusin Syndrome
Background: In twin pregnancies complicated by twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) blood passes through unidirectional vascular shunts from the donor to the recipient twin. The donor twin consequently exh...
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129 Hypoxia Alters Gabaa-Subunit Composition: Implications for Neural Rescue Therapy?
Background: Neuronal death following a hypoxic/ischaemic insult is thought to be caused by excitotoxicity, mediated via glutamate, the major excitatory neurotransmitter found in the central nervous system. ã-amin...
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128 Increase of IGFBP1 following Hypoxia in The Piglet
Background:: Insulin Like Growth Factor Binding Proteins (IGFBPs) may be more directly related to ischaemic injury than factors such as pH and lactate, which relate to hypoxia and anaerobic metabolism. We sought ...
