Perinatal Stroke
Dr Arameh Aghababaie, Dr Hesham El Sayed Did you think you left strokes safely behind as you entered paediatric training? Unfortunately they don’t only affect… Read More »Perinatal Stroke
Dr Arameh Aghababaie, Dr Hesham El Sayed Did you think you left strokes safely behind as you entered paediatric training? Unfortunately they don’t only affect… Read More »Perinatal Stroke
Dr Arameh Aghababaie, Dr Hesham El Sayed So, it’s your first day in the neonatal unit, and you keep hearing the term “ROP” being bandied… Read More »Beyond the Lens: Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)
Dr Niha Peshimam, Dr David Cox; Illustrations Dr Simone Paulson You are called to see an hour-old old term baby in the delivery suite with… Read More »Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension (PPHN)
Dr Rachel Tattersall, Dr Yadlapalli Kumar Untreated thyroid disease in a baby can have life long consequences – but the good news is that with… Read More »Neonatal thyroid screening
Adam Lawton and Abi Whitehouse The radiologist’s report comes back on that baby with respiratory distress and the unusual-looking x-ray. It reads: “This lesion is… Read More »Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformations (CPAM) – the abnormality formerly known as CCAM.
Natalie Shenker Out of frustration after a distressing conversation with the mother of a late preterm baby who had been seeking donor milk for her… Read More »Donor Milk Isn’t Water
Bryony Hopkinshaw, Jonathan Broad, Lisa Murphy, and Sarah Boutros A 28 week gestation child is born premature requiring NICU admission following an unbooked pregnancy. Mum’s… Read More »NHS for All? Part 3 – Maternity/Neonatal Care & Supporting Survivors of Trafficking
Dr Oliver Rackham, Neonatal Consultant You’re about to start reviewing a baby ready to present on the consultant ward round. You check the notes. You… Read More »Parent-led Ward Rounds on a Neonatal Unit
Keir Pickard (Haematology ST4 in the North-East) and Alex Langridge (Haematology ST6 in the North-East), reviewed by Andy Charlton, (Consultant Haematologist) Introduction: red cell antigens… Read More »To (anti-) D or not to D
Dr Jonathan Derrick, paediatric SHO; Dr Paul Fleming, consultant Neonatologist Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is the most common gastro-intestinal emergency seen in preterm babies and is… Read More »Small gut, big problem: Necrotising Enterocolitis
Dr Oliver Rackham, Neonatal Consultant You’re about to start reviewing a baby ready to present on the consultant ward round. You check the notes.… Read More »Parent Led Ward Rounds on a Neonatal Unit
Ilana Levene & Mark Anthony
Ilana Levene & Mark AnthonyRead More »Cry Baby Cry… Part 1
Nick Mani; Benita Morrissey
Dr Ilana Levene ¦ Dr Victoria Thomas
Starting a NICU rotation soon? Here are some essential reads: