Newborn medicine
Guidelines for vitamin K prophylaxis in newborns
Posted: Aug 16, 2018 | Reaffirmed: Jan 11, 2024
Committee(s): Fetus and Newborn Committee
Topic(s): fetal and maternal issues, newborn medicine, breastfeeding
Imaging the term neonatal brain
Posted: Jul 18, 2018 | Reaffirmed: Jan 11, 2024
Committee(s): Fetus and Newborn Committee
Topic(s): newborn medicine, hospital paediatrics, developmental paediatrics
Hypothermia for newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
Posted: Jun 12, 2018 | Reaffirmed: Jan 11, 2024
Committee(s): Fetus and Newborn Committee
Topic(s): newborn medicine, hospital paediatrics, acute care
Managing infants born to mothers who have used opioids during pregnancy
Posted: May 11, 2018
Committee(s): Fetus and Newborn Committee
Topic(s): newborn medicine, drug therapy, fetal and maternal issues, hospital paediatrics
Supporting and communicating with families experiencing a perinatal loss
Posted: Apr 18, 2018 | Reaffirmed: Jan 11, 2024
Committee(s): Fetus and Newborn Committee
Topic(s): fetal and maternal issues, newborn medicine, palliative medicine, bioethics
Pulse oximetry screening in newborns to enhance detection of critical congenital heart disease
Posted: Nov 27, 2017 | Reaffirmed: Feb 24, 2023
Committee(s): Fetus and Newborn Committee
Topic(s): newborn medicine
Counselling and management for anticipated extremely preterm birth
Posted: Aug 11, 2017 | Reaffirmed: Apr 21, 2023
Committee(s): Fetus and Newborn Committee
Topic(s): bioethics, early child development, newborn medicine
Management of term infants at increased risk for early onset bacterial sepsis
Posted: Jun 15, 2017
Committee(s): Fetus and Newborn Committee
Topic(s): drug therapy, fetal and maternal issues, infectious diseases, newborn medicine
Assessment of cardiorespiratory stability using the infant car seat challenge before discharge in preterm infants (<37 weeks’ gestational age)
Posted: Apr 1, 2016 | Reaffirmed: Mar 1, 2022
Committee(s): Fetus and Newborn Committee
Topic(s): hospital paediatrics, newborn medicine, patient safety, respirology
Retinopathy of prematurity: An update on screening and management
Posted: Mar 7, 2016
Committee(s): Fetus and Newborn Committee
Topic(s): fetal and maternal issues, newborn medicine
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