Infant Journal
for neonatal and paediatric healthcare professionals

Infant journal is the leading UK publication for the multidisciplinary team that cares for vulnerable sick or premature babies in their first year of life. Published bi-monthly, the journal contains authoritative articles with a clinical or practical bias written by experts in their field.

Abstracts of all articles are freely accessible by using the site search, or by browsing back issues. The full text of articles published from 2005 until November 2022 are available free of charge.

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Current issue: November/December 2024

Are we ready for medical examiner reforms for neonatal death certification?
Shanvir Mann, Gee-Na Beeston, Simon Clark
Neonatal death is a tragic event that has a profound impact on the family. Issuance of a death certificate is an essential step in the bereavement and legal process, to enable closure for the loved ones. As medical practitioners, it is paramount to provide accurate and sensitive death certificates. It is very important that the most accurate picture possible for the complex train of events leading to a neonatal death is drawn from the summary that the death certificate provides.1

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Prematurity with disorder of sex development. Case report of a gestational age estimation challenge
Rukhsar Osman, Yaser Abdallah
Newborn complications and deaths decrease as gestational age increases. Therefore, determining gestational age accurately is necessary in managing newborns appropriately. A newborn with dysmorphic genitalia was delivered at our facility to a mother unsure of her dates. Determining gestational age by the New Ballard Score (NBS) was therefore challenging, hence foot length was used, which estimated the age at 31 weeks. A quick method such as measuring foot length can be used as an alternative to estimate gestational age in preterm neonates with disorder of sex development where NBS can not be used to assess maturity of external genitalia.

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Tiny teeth: A preterm neonate born with teeth
Dr Abdullah A Khan, Dr Peter Reynolds
Natal teeth are present at birth and are uncommon. Their visual appearance can be unsettling for parents and in some cultures natal teeth are associated with positive or negative superstitions. This article presents the case and management of a preterm twin neonate born with two lower incisors who required respiratory support and nasogastric feeding.

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Initiation of therapeutic hypothermia in neonates with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy
Charu Bhatia, Antonieo Balraj, Abinaya Seenivasan
The authors present a comparative study on initiation of active and passive therapeutic hypothermia in neonates with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy grade 2-3 within a level 2 neonatal unit and a non-cooling centre.

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From the November 2022 edition

 FREE  Human milk oligosaccharides and necrotising enterocolitis
Kristina Chmelova, Andrea C Masi, Janet E Berrington

Human milk is known to reduce the risk of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) in preterm infants, but mechanisms are poorly understood. Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are complex sugars produced by the mammary gland and present in variable amounts in different breast milks. Animal models show HMOs impact on development of NEC and human
preterm infant studies show a specific HMO, called
disialyllacto-N-tetraose (DSLNT), is present in maternal milk in lower amounts in infants who go on to develop NEC. This article reviews the role of HMOs in NEC development and the clinical data in preterm infants, and considers the possible next steps for supplementation in preterm infants.

 FREE  pCO2 variation in elective transfers of infants on non-invasive respiratory support
Catarina Couto, Mira Parmar, Julia Arthur, Samantha O’Hare, Sue Broster

 FREE  Introducing the new neonatal Operational Delivery Network speech and language therapists
Jo Marks, Zoe Gordon, Katy Parnell

 FREE  Necrotising enterocolitis in a preterm infant with late-onset group B streptococcus sepsis and meningitis
Dyanne Imo-Ivoke, Joanna M Preece

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