Over a decade ago, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies published a report that found the annual cost of premature births in the United States exceeded…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Implementation of shoulder dystocia training was correlated with a greater than 3-fold decrease in obstetric brachial plexus injuries (OBPI) in a new retrospective…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In premature neonates with inguinal hernia, the risk of incarceration is doubled when repair is delayed beyond 40 weeks post-conceptual age, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Senior investigator Dr. Henry T. Akinbi of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, provided this perspective in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – When sepsis is suspected in a newborn infant, a complete blood count as a test for infection improves “dramatically” with increasing time over…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Training delivery ward personnel in manual assistance techniques in the crowning stage of labor significantly decreases the occurrence of anal sphincter tears, a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Unless they are already on appropriate antibiotics, all women undergoing cesarean delivery should be given prophylactic antibiotics within an hour before the procedure,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – There’s guidance on the dosing of prophylactic oseltamivir for premature neonates exposed to H1N1 influenza, in a “Brief Report” in the Journal of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Delivery of the neonate via emergency cesarean section occurs more quickly with a vertical skin incision than a transverse skin incision, but this…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The “dramatic benefits” of probiotic supplements for reducing death and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in very low birth weight (VLBW) preterm neonates have been…
Reza Jarrahy MD, Assistant Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, discusses how to evaluate neonates with micrognathia and avoid tracheostomy.…
