Neonatal Medicine News

The design of a rear-facing child restraint system may impact how the child is protected against injury during a collision in the rear of the vehicle, with noticeable benefits observed when Swedish-style tethering and an anti-rebound bar were used, according to findings published in a SAE International Technical Paper.

Approximately 99% of prenatal Zika infections could be avoided through immunization with a vaccine that demonstrates 75% efficacy, according to findings published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Neonatal caffeine therapy for apnea of prematurity in very low birth weight infants showed improved visuomotor, visuoperceptual and visuospatial outcomes at age 11 years compared with infants who did not receive the therapy, according to study results published in Pediatrics.

A 36-week gestation male newborn is delivered by emergency cesarean section because of decreased fetal movements. Pregnancy was also complicated by the mother having a positive group B streptococcal screen and taking Zoloft for depression.

Very low birth weight infants born within Swiss neonatal care units are more likely to have better outcomes when compared with infants born in American units, including the risk of death or major morbidity, according to findings published in Pediatrics.

Infants with bronchiolitis who are treated with high-flow oxygen therapy are less likely to require increased care when compared with infants who receive standard oxygen therapy, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor use during pregnancy may be associated with fetal brain development, particularly in regions critical to emotional processing, according to study results recently published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Study results showed that the effects of fragile X gene expression on the development of connectivity in white matter brain structures are well-established when a child is as young as 6 months old.

Preterm infants hospitalized in the neonatal ICU diagnosed with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia had three distinct phenotypes, as determined by infant pulmonary function testing, according to study results published in Pediatrics.

“Both gastric acid-suppressive medications and antibiotics have been implicated as factors that may enhance the development of allergic diseases,” Edward Mitre, MD, from the department of microbiology and immunology at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine in the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and colleagues wrote. “Use of these medications, which can directly cause intestinal dysbiosis, is of concern in light of increasing evidence that alterations in the human microbiome can increase the risk for allergy development.”