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CPAP-based New Treatment Approach Helps Reduce Chronic Lung ...
Medi News Direct, India - May 11, 2008
Researchers from Medical College of Georgia have suggested a novel approach to reduce trauma caused to the respiratory systems of premature infants, ...

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Times Online, UK - May 11, 2008
There have been isolated cases of even more severely premature infants surviving to live healthy lives, and in certain specialist neo-natal units survival ...
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A new calculator could help determine the survivability of very ...
International Herald Tribune, France - Apr 17, 2008
Although some extremely premature infants do well, many die, sometimes after weeks or months of painful invasive procedures in intensive care units. ...
Clinical Factors May Predict Survival in Extremely Premature Infants Medscape (subscription)
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Gestational Age Not Only Factor in Outcome of Severely Premature ... Newswise (press release)
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Survival rates before 24 weeks the same
NHS Choices, UK - May 9, 2008
In this cohort study, the researchers investigated if there have been changes in survival rates for extremely premature infants who are born before the 26th ...
Study little help for anti-abortion group United Press International
Very premature baby survival not improving Reuters UK
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All is not well for US moms
Roanoke Times, VA - May 11, 2008
Premature birth carries many additional risk factors such as breathing, feeding and developmental problems for the infant. Premature infants often have to ...
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Newswise (press release) - May 1, 2008
One of the most common complications in premature infants is slow growth after delivery that has been attributed to lack of early nutrition support. ...
Pediatricians Can Identify High-Risk Preemies Needing RSV Prophylaxis
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Developmental problems commonly affecting extremely premature infants include cerebral palsy, mental impairment, vision impairment and hearing loss. ...
Having a Baby: Mother?s Touch Helps Cut Newborns? Pain
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Researchers studied 61 infants born at 28 to 31 weeks of gestation (most babies are born at 38 to 41 weeks) who needed to have their heels lanced for blood ...
NYC hospitals plan push to improve care for premature babies
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Physiological Responses Of Premature Infants to A Painful Stimulus. -
BJ STEVENS, CC JOHNSTON - Nursing Research, 1994 - nursingresearchonline.com
... mildly ill infants, 34 (27.4%) moderately ill infants, and 29 ... hemorrhage in the
premature infant: Current concepts ... for use in critically ill infants and children ...

… relation to experiences in the home environments of low birthweight, premature children living in … -
RH Bradley, L Whiteside, DJ Mundfrom, PH Casey, KJ … - Child Development, 1994 - JSTOR
... That premature children living in poverty would escape all forms of ... It was only
moderately specific, with 28% of the nonresilient infants being cor- rectly ...

Early determinants of right and left ventricular output in ventilated preterm infants. -
N Evans, M Kluckow - Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal Edition, 1996 - pt.wkhealth.com
... output in individual critically ill infants, [16] it ... when comparing the mild and
moderate/severe groups ... on cardiac performance in premature infants: a Doppler ...

MATERNAL CARETAKING AND PLAY WITH FULL-TERM AND PREMATURE INFANTS -
K Minde, M Perrotta, P Marton - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1985 - Blackwell Synergy
... In addition, each premature infaht was given daily ... 100 or above are called 'sick'
infants, while those in between are labeled 'moderately ill' infants. ...

Early diagnosis of septicemia in the newborn -
U T?llner - European Journal of Pediatrics, 1982 - Springer
... "Moderate": Up to 25% bands. ... Twenty-eight premature babies with pronounced bilateral
ventricular hemorrhage ... One patient became ill through infection with ...

Postpartal Anxiety and Depression in Mothers of Term and Preterm Infants. -
S GENNARO - Nursing Research, 1988 - nursingresearchonline.com
... cate- gories: very ill (20), moderately ill (16), and ... on unrestricted paren- tal
contact with infants in the ... Maternal reactions to premature birth viewed as an ...

… PIGMENTS IN ERYTHROBLASTOSIS FETALIS: II. The Level of Heme Pigment; An Early Guide to Management … -
TR Boggs Jr, NM Abelson - Pediatrics, 1956 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... premature infants, whose premature birth is secondary to some factor ... repre- sents
a grouping of erythroblastotic infants into severe, moderate and mild ...

Variations in Transfusion Practice in Neonatal Intensive Care -
SA Ringer, DK Richardson, RA Sacher, M Keszler, WH … - Pediatrics, 1998 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... programs for retrotransfer of convalescing premature infants back to ... were eliminated
because of early death or ... Thus, a moderately ill infant, with a SNAP score ...

Neurobiology of Periventricular Leukomalacia in the Premature Infant. -
JJ VOLPE - Pediatric Research, 2001 - IPRF
... impair intact autoregulation, eg moderate hypoxemia or ... PD, Volpe JJ 1999 Early detection
of ... with mean arterial pressure in critically ill premature infants. ...

Left ventricular performance in the critically ill premature infant with patent ductus arteriosus … -
B Baylen, RA Meyer, J Korfhagen, G Benzing, ME … - Circulation, 1977 - Am Heart Assoc
... in the critically ill premature infant with PDA ... disease, consisted of 17 premature
infants with clinical ... laboratory and roentgenographic evidence of moderate ...

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Moderately premature infants often ill early on

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Infants born prematurely at 30 to 34 weeks' gestation experience significant morbidity in the early months of life, researchers report

"Near-term babies are at high risk for adverse outcomes," Dr. Gabriel J. Escobar from Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California told Reuters Health.

Escobar and colleagues evaluated birth outcomes and 3-month follow-up of 850 30- to 34-week infants who survived the birth stay in the hospital -- a group they dub "unstudied infants," since much of the recent neonatal literature has focused on more premature infants.

They report in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Fetal and Neonatal Edition that almost half the babies required some form of assisted ventilation to help them breathe and about a quarter of the infants received surfactant, substance that helps the lungs expand.

Among the 30-32 week infants, the results indicate, 4.9 percent developed sepsis or meningitis, 1.2 percent developed inflammation of the intestines, a condition known as necrotizing enterocolitis, and 0.6 percent developed bleeding in the brain.

These rates are all substantially higher than those reported for term infants, the investigators explain.

Just over 11 percent of the infants required readmission to the hospital within 3 months of being discharged, the researchers note. This compares with a readmission rate of only 4.3 percent for term infants in the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in 2002.

Escobar recommends "greater attention to initial management in the neonatal period; in particular, these babies should not be a) treated on the basis of their birth weight; b) rushed out of the hospital; and c) evaluated unaggressively when they show temperature instability, poor feeding, or respiratory distress."

"We need more research on these babies to decide what works and what does not," Escobar concluded. "Working with a team of investigators from the March of Dimes, we are going to look at Kaiser Permanente data to ascertain developmental outcomes among near-term infants."

SOURCE: Archives of Disease in Childhood, Fetal and Neonatal Edition,.

Copyright © 2006 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world.

 

Rapid flu test curbs diagnostic testing in the ER

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A point-of-care rapid influenza test used during the flu season in the pediatric emergency department of a children's hospital was sensitive and specific for influenza infection, and led to less diagnostic testing, a Tennessee-based team of doctors found.

"Influenza is one of the common causes of illness during the winter," lead researcher Dr. Katherine A. Poehling pointed out in remarks to Reuters Health. "We found that rapid influenza tests were associated with fewer tests being ordered in the emergency department."

To investigate the impact of such testing, Poehling and colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, conducted a study during the influenza seasons between 2002 and 2004. Surveillance days were randomly allocated to use or non-use of the test. Rapid results were compared with results of standard culture or another method of detecting viruses called PCR.

In total, 306 children with fever or acute respiratory symptoms attending the emergency department and 162 attending the hospital acute care clinic were enrolled. All were younger than 5 years of age.Overall, 88 children (19 percent) had influenza. In the rapid testing group, 51 (25 percent) had influenza. The test had a sensitivity of detecting influenza of 82 percent and a specificity for influenza of 99 percent.

The rapid test led to fewer emergency department children having diagnostic tests (39 percent versus 51 percent). However there was no difference in those attending the acute care clinic. There was no difference in antibiotic prescribing in either setting.

In a report in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, the researchers call for further studies, but note the value of a reduction in unnecessary diagnostic testing during the influenza seasons when such facilities are often overcrowded. However, added Poehling, "because prevention is better than being diagnosed with influenza, parents -- particularly those with children 6 months up to 5 years of age and those with medical conditions such as asthma -- should talk to their doctors about the influenza vaccine."

SOURCE: Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine,

Most US adults not engaging in strength training

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Only 20 percent of adults engage in recommended strength training exercises, a figure that is substantially lower than the 2010 national health objective of 30 percent, according to findings released Thursday.

The American College of Sports Medicine and other groups recommend that adults engage in physical activities to improve and maintain muscular strength and endurance at least twice a week.

In the present study, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for 1998 to 2004 to determine trends in strength training among US adults. The NHIS, which involves face-to-face interviews about health issues, featured annual sample sizes of around 32,000 and response rates of about 72 percent.

From 1998 to 2004, the overall proportion of adults engaging in recommended levels of strength training increased slightly, but significantly from 17.7 percent to 19.6 percent. This trend was largely due to a significant increase in training among women; the rate among men did not change much.Despite the improvement seen in women, the proportion meeting recommended levels of training in 2004 lagged behind men: 17.5 percent vs. 21.0 percent.

In 2004, adults 65 years of age and older were the group least likely to engage in recommended strength training. However, this was the only group that showed a significant increase in training prevalence for both genders from 1998 to 2004.

In 2004, the prevalence of strength training was lowest among Hispanics -- 15.0 percent for men and 9.1 percent for women. Among women, non-Hispanic whites had a significantly higher rate of strength training than other groups, whereas for men, the rates were roughly the same with exception of the low rate noted in Hispanics. "Additional opportunities for adults to engage in strength training (e.g. in places where adults already pursue leisure-time activity, such as schools and community centers) could increase the prevalence of strength training," the researchers note. "The findings in this report also underscore the need to increase education on the benefits of strength training among targeted adult populations."

SOURCE: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,

 
 
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