Objectives This study aimed to compare the clinical outcome of nebulized isotonic magnesium sulphate along with standard treatment in hospitalized children with acute exacerbation of asthma who ...

In 2018, Her Majesty's Government published statutory and operational guidance setting out how children’s deaths are reviewed in England, aiming to ensure practice is standardised and review of each ...

Objective To determine whether any children in the UK had variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Design This active prospective epidemiological study used the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit, ...

Introduction High ‘did not attend’ rates have a huge impact on precious NHS resources. Paediatric DNAs add another dimension to this problem: the safety of the unseen child. Aim The overall aim of ...

a Department of Paediatrics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands, b Child Health Division, TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden, Netherlands Dr A M Fredriks, TN0-P8, PO Box 2215, 2301 ...

Background The period through pregnancy and the early years is crucial for optimising child growth, development and lifelong well-being. Son-preference (family desire for male over female children) ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate physical activity energy expenditure (AEE) in groups of free living infants in the first year of life. DESIGN Mixed longitudinal study of 124 healthy infants, using 232 ...

1 Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK 2 Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, ...

Background and Objectives Prolonged neonatal jaundice is defined as jaundice persisting in a term neonate at 14 days and a preterm neonate at 21 days of age. Prolonged neonatal jaundice is most ...

Introduction Paracetamol is a readily available antipyretic and analgesic, widely used to treat mild to moderate pain. Unintentional overdosing in neonates occurs, but so far only single case reports ...

Base deficit is a parameter often used to guide further treatment in acidotic children and is taken as a measure of how “sick” they are. Five children with septic shock are presented who had ...

Background The broad-spectrum antiparasitic drug ivermectin is widely used in children, and its use in children weighing < 15 kg is off-label, as little data is available to inform the use of ...