We present the first report of a newborn with spontaneous pneumothorax and bronchopleural fistula treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Positive pressure mechanical ventilation ...

Setting Tertiary neonatal intensive care unit ... Adverse outcomes were few: intubation within 72 h (n=3), pneumothorax (n=1), chronic lung disease (n=3) and death (n=1), all in the 25–28-week group.

Pneumothorax occurred more often in the infants ... chronic pulmonary disease invariably appeared in the surviving infant after a hundred and fifty hours of exposure to High Oxygen.

15 Newborn babies and infants comprise a quarter of cardiac ... However, because many procedures can be emergent (eg, needle decompression for tension pneumothorax) with little time to perform ...

The other outcomes, including pneumothorax and infant mortality, were not found to be significantly different. The RCT had a high risk of bias with respect to allocation concealment and an unclear ...

The following is a summary of “An Improvement Project to Lower Pneumothorax Rates in Neonates Born at 36 Weeks’ Gestational Age or Beyond,” published in the December 2024 issue of Pediatrics by ...

With new neonatal care leave and pay entitlements coming into effect in April 2025, Kavitha Sivasubramaniam looks at how and why employers should prepare for them now. Nearly three years after ...

1:17 High profile ‘childbirth activist’ Gloria Lemay charged in death of newborn A B.C. woman who is permanently banned from practicing midwifery is facing manslaughter charges related to the ...

Newborn boys are more likely to have urinary tract abnormalities compared with girls, particularly in the first 6 months of life; however, many boys later outgrow these abnormalities ...

A Virginia woman has been arrested on charges including child abuse after more than a half-dozen babies suffered fractures during a span of more than a year at the Virginia neonatal intensive care ...