Publications by authors named "C Counsilman"
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to evaluate the need for exchange transfusions in neonatal care, track the use and waste of transfusion products, and understand their prevalence across the Netherlands.
- - Data from all 9 neonatal intensive care units and 15 other hospitals were analyzed over an 11-year period, revealing that severe immune hemolysis was the most common reason for transfusions while around 50% of products ordered were not used.
- - The findings showed that only 14.6 out of every 100,000 liveborn neonates required an exchange transfusion, indicating that these procedures are quite rare in the Netherlands and a significant number of products go unused.
Objective: To compare the discriminative performances of the 2018 National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the 2019 Jensen definitions of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) with the 2001 NIH definition on adverse neurodevelopmental and respiratory outcomes at 2 years and 5 years corrected age.
Study Design: In this single-center retrospective cohort study, outcomes of infants born at <30 weeks of gestational age were collected. The 3 definitions of BPD were compared by adding the different definitions to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's outcome prediction model for neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI) or death.
Iatrogenic blood loss in extreme preterm infants due to frequent laboratory tests and procedures.
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med
August 2021
Objective: To evaluate the cumulative amount of iatrogenic blood loss in extreme preterm infants during the first month of life.
Study Design: We performed an observational cohort study in 20 extreme preterm infants (gestational age <28 weeks). We recorded the amount of blood drawn for laboratory testing during the first 4 weeks of life, the number of punctures for phlebotomy and intravenous access and the amount of blood loss associated with these procedures.
Objective: To evaluate red blood cell (RBC) transfusion practices in preterm neonates before and after protocol change.
Methods: All preterm neonates (<32 weeks of gestation) admitted between 2008 and 2017 at our neonatal intensive care unit were included in this retrospective study. Since 2014, a more restrictive transfusion guideline was implemented in our unit.
Background: Rituximab (RTX) has recently been introduced as a second-line therapy for nephrotic syndrome in children. Studies show that RTX given during the nephrotic state may be less effective than treatment during a non-nephrotic state, possibly due to loss of RTX in the urine.
Case-diagnosis/treatment: We describe a 10-year-old boy with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (SRNS) treated with RTX during a phase of active non-selective proteinuria.