Baby & Child
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BREAKTHROUGH IN NEONATAL TRANSPORT INCUBATOR DESIGN
Away from the relative safety of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, infants can come to harm rapidly if deterioration occurs during transports to such units. Dr Ian Laing reports on an innovative approach to developing a more effective transport incubator. Read…
SHOULD WE 'EXPERIMENT' ON CHILDREN?
Children are generally treated with smaller doses of medicines which have been tested on adults, yet children can react differently to such medicines. As new and more effective medicines continue to be developed, how can we find an ethical and safe way of testing their effectiveness on children? Prof Alan Craft examines this area and provides a commentary on a recent US attempt to achieve this. Read…
When is the ideal time for a pre-term fetus to be delivered?
It can be very difficult to decide if it would be better to deliver a compromised, or at-risk, fetus early, and at a developmental stage when there may be a higher risk of death or disability, or to delay until there is no clinical doubt that delivery is necessary and the risks may be lower. In this article Dr Ian Laing provides an overview of some recent studies which have tried to answer this difficult question. Read…
Fetal Surgical Intervention
Developments in medicine have enabled some surgical procedures to be carried out on fetuses while they are still inside the mother’s womb with the intent of saving the life of the fetus or minimising serious disease. In this article Dr Ross Welch and Mr Leon Dupuch review these developments and the range of surgical procedures currently being carried out. (Image - © istockphoto.com) Read…
NEW PATIENT/PUBLIC SUMMARY ARTICLE No.3 (pilot): Fetal interventional surgery
We are currently piloting the production of plain English ‘Patient/Public’ summaries of original clinical review articles published on the BTMH website in order to increase public access to, and understanding of, the clinical content of these articles. Please access this short Patient/Public summary of Dr Welch and Mr Dupuch’s overview of fetal surgical intervention and complete the short survey at the end of this article in order to provide us with your feedback. Read…
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