Impact of the Koala Project on clinical outcomes of preterm infants in two maternity hospitals.

Objective: To describe the impact of the Koala project (Actively Controlling Target Oxygen) on clinical outcomes in patients born with less than 36 weeks of gestation, in two maternity hospitals, comparing before and after the strategy implementation.

Methods: This is an intervention study with 100 preterm infants with gestational age ≤36 weeks, who used oxygen in two maternity hospitals between January 2020 and August 2021. One of the hospitals was a private institution and the other was philanthropic.

Coronavirus disease-19 deaths among children and adolescents in an area of Northeast, Brazil: why so many?

Objective: To describe COVID-19 deaths among children and adolescents in Sergipe, Brazil.

Methods: Ecological study of all COVID-19 reported cases and deaths occurring in children and adolescents < 19 years of age in Sergipe reported by the health surveillance and mortality information systems of Sergipe's Health Secretary and hospital records.

Results: Of 37 deaths of children < 19 years old were reported up to 30 September 2020, corresponding to 4.