Article Reviews

Article Reviews - Lee Shirland

This new feature to our newsletter & Website is being introduced as a trial. The goal is to present relevant recently published clinical articles to the busy NNP, stimulate critical thinking and curiosity about how your unit or outcomes compare and to suggest potential quality improvement and/or possible research projects/topics. Please email us and tell us if you find the feature helpful to your clinical practice and would like or not like to have this continued as a regular feature.

•   Review 1: "Cold Stress and Hypoglycemia in the Late Preterm ("Near Term") Infant: Impact on Nursery Admission."

Authors: Abbot Laptook, MD & Gregory L. Jackson MD.  

Citation: Seminars In Perinatology (2006), 30: 24-27.  

•   Review 2: "Treated Hypotension Is Associated With Neonatal Morbidity and Hearing Loss in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants."

Authors: Jonathan M. Fanaroff, MD, Deanne E. Wilson-Costello, MD, Nancy S.Newman, RN, Michelle M. Montipetite, MS, Avory A. Fanaroff, MB, Bch.   

Citation: Pediatrics (2006) 117(4) 1131-1135.

•   Review 3: "A Multicenter, Randomized Trial of Prophylactic Fluconazole in Preterm Neonates"

  New England Journal Of Medicine

  Author P. Manzoni, MD. Et al, June 14th, PP 2483-2494 2007, pages 2483-