Publications by authors named "Carlo Bellini"
Following a previous article that described the early days of Italian air rescue and that reached up to the immediate postwar period (World War II), this article describes the search and rescue activity carried out by the Italian Grumman Albatross HU-16A from the postwar period until the end of the 70s.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Twin pregnancy rates have increased in the past 30 years. We describe the experience of the Neonatal Emergency Transport Service of the Gaslini Hospital, Genoa, Italy, in the transport of twin newborns.
Methods: This was a retrospective study (1996-2021); 7,852 medical charts from the Neonatal Emergency Transport Service were reviewed.
Aim: We reviewed the literature on cooling methods during transport of newborn infants with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) born in a non-tertiary centre and transferred to a neonatal intensive care unit for therapeutic hypothermia.
Methods: The electronic databases CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, and Scopus were searched from inception up to 8 March 2022 for studies comparing cooling versus no cooling, active versus passive cooling, and servo-controlled versus non-servo-controlled cooling. Odds ratio and confidence of interval were calculated for dichotomous outcomes and mean difference and confidence interval for continuous outcomes.
Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the management of preterm newborns with respiratory distress both in the delivery room and during transportation.
Methods: We retrospectively evaluated the intubation rate in preterm newborns (inborn vs. outborn), gestational age (GA) < 34 weeks, admitted to the Gaslini neonatal intensive care unit, Genoa, Italy (January 2019-December 2020).
The purpose of this article is to describe the helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) presently operating in Italy. The article details all currently operational HEMS bases and all currently used helicopters. A comparison with the HEMS situation in Italy as it was previously described in 2005 is discussed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe retrospectively evaluated the rectal temperature of 297 hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) outborn newborns who were passive-cooling transported by Neonatal Emergency Transport Service (Genoa and Rome, Italy) at their arrival in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. By a total of 1461 transports, 297 were for suspected HIE. Transferring suspected HIE newborn does not mean with certainty directing him/her to cooling treatment, but rather to monitoring and deepening in the hypothesis of starting hypothermia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present article shows the current neonatal air transport organization and activity in Italy. The results were obtained on the basis of a recent 2019 survey (year of activity 2018) performed by the Neonatal Transport Study Group of the Italian Society of Neonatology. The total number of newborn transports during the year 2018 was 6,464.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The purpose of this study was to find a predictive equation for estimating the optimal nasal endotracheal tube insertion depth in extremely low-birth weight infants (ELBWs) requiring invasive ventilation in the critical care interfacility transport setting.
Methods: We retrospectively calculated the optimal tube insertion depth in a cohort of neonates ≤ 1,000 g born at our neonatal intensive care unit and nasally intubated within the first 24 hours of life from January 2019 to May 2020.
Results: A total of 75 ELBW infants were included, with a median gestational age of 26.