Two-year outcomes for infants with low cord pH at birth.

Objective: To determine the long-term outcome of infants born with cord pH ≤ 7.0 and no clinical evidence of asphyxia at birth.

Setting: Tertiary Referral Centre.

What is the impact of structured resuscitation training on healthcare practitioners, their clients and the wider service? A BEME systematic review: BEME Guide No. 20.

A large number of resuscitation training courses (structured resuscitation training programmes (SRT)) take place in many countries in the world on a regular basis. This review aimed to determine whether after attending SRT programmes, the participants have a sustained retention of resuscitation knowledge and skills after their initial acquisition and whether there is an improvement in outcome for patients and/or their healthcare organisation after the institution of an SRT programme. All research designs were included, and the reported resuscitation training had to have been delivered in a predefined structured manner over a finite period of time.

Clinician observation of physiological trend monitoring to identify late-onset sepsis in preterm infants.

Aim: To determine whether trends in routinely collected physiological variables can be used retrospectively to classify infants according to the presence or absence of late-onset neonatal sepsis.

Methods: Case control study. Thirty infants born < or =32 weeks of gestation who developed late-onset sepsis were matched with 30 controls for gestational and postnatal age but remained sepsis free.