C Klingenberg

..A reduction in the number of preterm deliveries and improved perinatal care to avoid and treat perinatal asphyxia would be the two most important measures in reducing neonatal mortality in this setting...

..Congenital urologic malformations occur with an incidence of 1:100 to 1: 200, leading to an increased risk of urinary tract infections. However, most patients remain without symptoms; serious electrolyte imbalance is rare...

..For lower UTI nitrofurantoin is an excellent first choice. In Norway, lack of paediatric antibiotic syrups is a great challenge and we recommend that such formulations are introduced to the Norwegian market...

..Setting the peak inflating pressure limit well above the working pressure is important to enable the ventilator to deliver the set V(T), and to avoid frequent alarms. This paper provides a practical guide on how to use VG ventilation...

..To evaluate enteral feeding practices in neonatal units in different countries and on different continents...

..Our aim is to present an update on clinical presentation, genetics and behavioural aspects in the CHARGE syndrome. Furthermore, we give recommendations regarding multidisciplinary management...

..To evaluate clinical practice of volume-targeted ventilation (VTV)...

..Some national resuscitation guidelines advocate using sustained initial inflations (2-3 s) for babies requiring resuscitation. Inflation times ≥10 s have been used for preterm infants...

..To investigate the prevalence of aminoglycoside resistance and genes encoding aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes (AME) in blood culture isolates of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) from neonates...

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..The purpose of this study was to assess whether recently employed residents were content with the way they had been received and how these programmes were put into practice...

..It may be more prudent, when searching for new therapeutic targets, to focus on ubiquitous components of CoNS instead of putative virulence factors that do not clearly contribute to increased invasive capacity...

..Our results are comparable with those from previous studies on reservoirs of methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci using conventional culture techniques...

..In septic arthritis and osteomyelitis in children, the infectious agent is frequently not identified because of failure in obtaining bacterial growth from blood culture or osteoarticular aspirations...

..Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are the most prevalent pathogens causing late onset sepsis in neonates. They are often multiresistant to antibiotics, and the ability to form biofilm is considered their main virulence determinant...

..However, patients in our study were successfully and safely treated, irrespective of the primary empirical antibiotic regimen...

..This study audits the activity of the neonatal air transport team in Norway's two northernmost counties...

..The aim of the study was to investigate the antimicrobial effect of different antibiotics and synthetic antimicrobial peptidomimetics (SAMPs) on staphylococcal biofilms...

..Volume targeting aims to produce a more stable tidal volume in order to reduce lung damage and stabilise pCO(2)..

..This type of rapid and high-throughput methodology opens the possibility to rapidly assess long-term nosocomial transmission or to characterize infecting strains in the general procedure of routine laboratories, in real-time...