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..Based on these data, it is recommended that oxygen therapy should be considered in infants whose baseline SpO2 is <93%, and that SpO2 should be maintained at > or =95% when infants are managed at home...

..To study the effect of doxapram on the frequency of apnoea, bradycardia and hypoxaemia...

..Home monitor recommendations should be revisited, taking the above issues into account...

..We used this technique to investigate whether there is a temporal relationship between GER and AOP and whether GER occurs predominantly before a cardiorespiratory (CR) event...

..These differences would argue for concentrating home oxygen therapy to centers with the largest experience...

..To demonstrate that skin-to-skin care (SSC) has no detrimental effects on the frequency of episodes of bradycardia and/or hypoxemia...

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..CONCLUSION: These instruments detected hyperoxaemia with sufficient sensitivity at an upper alarm limit of 95%, but showed differences in their specificity, which was probably related to differences in measurement bias...

..In families with a term infant who dies of unexplained respiratory failure, genetic testing of the parents should be evaluated, since the presence of the codon 121 mutation enables prenatal diagnosis in later pregnancies...

..Pulmonary interstitial emphysema (PIE) represents a severe complication of respiratory distress syndrome and can dramatically impair the ventilation of premature infants...

..Our data emphasize that PC16:0/14:0 and PC16:0/16:1 may be important surfactant components in alveolar lungs, and that their concentrations are adapted to respiratory physiology...

..56, 95% CI 1.12 to 2.18). CONCLUSIONS: SGA VLBW infants are at increased risk of death, but not of IVH and PVL, and at decreased risk of RDS. That mortality is higher in smaller hospitals needs further investigation...

..CONCLUSION: Bradycardia and desaturation were increased during SSC, even at constant rectal temperature, whereas ET had no effect on these events. Moderate hyperthermia did not increase respiratory instability in preterm infants...

..CONCLUSIONS: Socioeconomic status, obesity, signs of nasal obstruction, and pharyngeal problems were independent risk factors for HS in these primary school children. The expression of HS varied considerably over time...

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..Objective criteria that help to identify those presumably few infants who do require treatment for GER disease are urgently needed...

..79, 0.83, and 0.83 for the three pairs of investigators and 0.84 for the repeated scoring procedure. MII recordings could be analyzed with a high level of inter- and intraobserver agreement...

..However, levels of care are usually not linked to caseload requirements, which remain a point for discussion. We aimed to investigate the impact of annual delivery volume on early neonatal mortality among very preterm births...

..There were 72 (range, 40-145) reflux episodes with the esophageal placement and 122 (range, 60-147) during the gastric position (P <.01)...

..A recent study suggested severity of intrauterine growth retardation as a decisive criterion, reporting very poor survival for infants born at </=28 weeks with birth weight <2nd centile...

..We hypothesized that neonatal mortality would be higher in small NICUs (< 36 very low birth weight admissions per year) than in large NICUs, with adjustment for volume of the delivery unit...

..01). We conclude that blood transfusions significantly reduced heart and respiratory rates in these anemic infants, but had little effect on apnea of prematurity...

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..4, 1.4-14.2). Habitual snoring was associated with several sleep problems in our study. Long-term habitual snorers were more likely to have sleep problems than children who had stopped snoring spontaneously...

..Several abnormalities may occur in these children, e.g. esophageal atresia (EA), imperforate anus or abdominal wall defects. Correction of EA is often performed as a staged procedure in this group of patients...

..0-9.8), were independent risk factors for recurrent sleep-related hypoxia. Our data suggest that overweight, passive smoking, respiratory allergies, and acute lung disease may independently contribute to sleep-related hypoxia in children...

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..Whether withholding or pasteurizing breast milk is warranted, however, depends on long-term outcome...

..Recently, a lethal phenotype characterized by sudden infant death with dysgenesis of the testes syndrome (SIDDT) was identified to be caused by loss of function mutations in the TSPYL1 gene...

..24%, P < 0.03) and extended downward more rapidly (12.3 cm/s vs. 5.8 cm/s, P < 0.01). CONCLUSION: Bolus transport of small liquid volumes can be detected via MII...

..The aim of this study was to examine neonatal and adult T cell response with respect to the costimulatory MPhi-potential in order to identify molecular predictors for the neonatal immune defense...

..Thus, habitual snoring (i.e., snoring frequently or always) was associated with poor academic performance in these primary school children...

..This study was underpowered, however, to exclude a higher NEC recurrence risk potentially associated with this change in practice...

..gasping occurred during the majority of SID cases where respiratory patterns have been analysed, but it remains unclear why gasping remains ineffective in resuscitating the infant from hypoxaemia...

..2-5.1]). CONCLUSION: Despite a significant increase in creatine excretion, suggesting good enteral absorption, CS did not, in the dose and for the duration given in this study, improve symptoms of AOP in these infants...

..001). Automatic oxygen control may optimize oxygen administration to preterm infants receiving nasal continuous positive airway pressure and reduce nursing time spent with oxygen control...

..4. This study sample appears to be highly representative with regard to all available data from the population, and therefore suitable to study the prevalence of HS and OSA. Our prevalence estimates are in the range of other studies...

..This variable may predict neurocognitive deficits in school children. Mild hypoxemia, as yet widely considered benign, may already affect cognition in childhood. SpO2..

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..These data may serve as a basis for the interpretation of clinical recordings of SpO(2) in children referred for sleep-related breathing disorders...