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Integration of a portable ultrasound device into community midwife practice: a feasibility study
Introduction Ultrasound is an essential part of obstetric care and should not be limited to hospital use. The introduction of a portable device could enable community midwives to take ultrasound to ...
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Dr William Hunter (1718–83) and the gravid uterus
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Systolic blood pressure in babies of less than 32 weeks gestation in the first year of life
AIM To define the normal range of systolic blood pressure in a non-selective population based sample of babies of low gestation throughout early infancy. METHODS Daily measurements of systolic blood ...
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Cerebral abscess in pregnancy: a clinical dilemma
A 19-year-old at 39 weeks gestation had caesarean delivery for pathological cardiotocograph at 2 cm cervical dilatation. Antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum blood pressures did not exceed 140/90 mm ...
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Louise Bourgeois (1563–1636): royal midwife of France
Abstract Louise Bourgeois was the first practicing midwife to write of her experience of childbirth and of women’s problems. She did much to enhance the respect in which her craft was held. For 26 ...
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Feasibility of non-invasive cardiac output monitoring at birth using electrical bioreactance in term infants
Correspondence to Dr Karen Nora McCarthy, INFANT Research Centre, University College Cork College of Medicine and Health, Cork T12 YN60, Ireland; karen.n.mccarthy{at}gmail.com Background Non-invasive ...
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A neonate with a ‘milky’ blood. What can it be?
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Relation between size of delivery unit and neonatal death in low risk deliveries: population based study
AIM To examine risk of neonatal death after low risk pregnancies in relation to size of delivery units. METHODS A population based study of live born singleton infants in Norway with birthweights of ...
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Aicardi-Goutières syndrome as a rare cause of neonatal intracranial calcifications
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Blood cultures in newborns and children: optimising an everyday test
Correspondence to: Dr Buttery, Clinical Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia; butteryj{at}cryptic.rch.unimelb.edu.au ...
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Predictive Intelligent Control of Oxygenation (PRICO) in preterm infants on high flow nasal cannula support: a randomised cross-over study
Objective To investigate the efficacy of automated control of inspired oxygen (FiO2) by Predictive Intelligent Control of Oxygenation (PRICO) on the Fabian ventilator in maintaining oxygen saturation ...
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The ORACLE Children Study: educational outcomes at 11 years of age following antenatal prescription of erythromycin or co-amoxiclav
6 Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK Correspondence to Professor Neil Marlow, Institute for Women's Health, University ...