Exploring physiological stability of infants in Kangaroo Mother Care position versus placed in transport incubator during neonatal ground ambulance transport in Sweden.

Background: The positive effects of Kangaroo mother care in NICU's are well documented but, to a lesser extent, explored during inter-hospital neonatal transport. Inter-hospital transport, with the infant placed in a transport incubator, increases the risk of separation while infants in Kangaroo mother care position implies that the parents accompany the transport. There exists limited knowledge if physiological stability differs when transported in Kangaroo mother care position compared to transport in a transport incubator.

The impact of an individualised neonatal parent support programme on parental stress: a quasi-experimental study.

Aim: To evaluate the impact on parental stress of an individualised neonatal parent support programme.

Method: A quasi-experimental design. Parents of preterm infants, at a level II NICU, were consecutively assigned to a control group (n = 130) and to an intervention group (n = 101).

Medical services of a multicultural summer camp event: experiences from the 22nd World Scout Jamboree, Sweden 2011.

Background: Prevention and treatment of medical issues are the main task of a health service at a youth camp. However, only few reports about organisation and implementation of camp health care are available. This makes it difficult for future camp directors to plan and estimate the health care needed for a certain camp size.

No evidence of intrauterine transmission of hepatitis A virus from a mother to a premature infant.

Aim: To determine whether or not an intrauterine transmission of hepatitis A virus (HAV) occurred from an infected mother to her premature infant delivered by caesarean section.

Methods: The mother and her child were tested for HAV by serology and reverse transcription PCR.

Results: An outbreak of HAV infection was seen among children and a 33-year-old day-care teacher, pregnant in third trimester, at a day-care centre in southern Sweden.

N-acetylcysteine does not prevent bronchopulmonary dysplasia in immature infants: a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To evaluate whether N-acetylcysteine (NAC) infusion during the first week of life reduces the risk of death or bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in infants with extremely low birth weight. Study design In a Nordic multicenter, double-blind trial, infants (n=391) weighing 500 to 999 g and on ventilator or nasal continuous positive airway pressure were randomized before the age of 36 hours to receive NAC 16 to 32 mg/kg/d (n=194) or placebo (n=197) intravenously for 6 days. Primary end points were death or BPD, defined as supplementary oxygen requirement at 36 weeks' gestational age.

A premature infant with fulminant meningococcal septicaemia.

The case is described of a 10-week-old preterm infant, a twin boy born at 34 weeks of gestational age. The day after a hernia operation he had a rapidly progressive fulminant Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B septicaemia, of which he died despite immediate and adequate treatment. No secondary cases occurred among other infants on the neonatal intensive care unit.

[Swedish guidelines for prevention and treatment of pain in the newborn infant].

A Swedish national consensus statement concerning prevention and management of pain in the newborn infant has been prepared by members of the Swedish Paediatric Pain Society (Svensk Barnsmärtförening, SBSF). The document is based on the Consensus Statement for the Prevention and Management of Pain in the Newborn Infant by Anand et al [1].