Challenges to heart failure medication prescribing post-hospitalization.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of heart failure (HF) medication prescribing on discharge post-HF-related admission.

Methods: A retrospective audit was conducted for 216 HF admissions over a period of 6 months; medication data from electronic records were collected for analysis.

Key Findings: The prevalence of HF medication prescribing on discharge was: 32.

Altered cardiovascular function at birth in growth-restricted preterm lambs.

Background: Cardiovascular dysfunction at birth may underlie poor outcomes after fetal growth restriction (FGR) in neonates. We compared the cardiovascular transition between FGR and appropriately grown (AG) preterm lambs and examined possible mechanisms underlying any cardiovascular dysfunction in FGR lambs.

Methods: FGR was induced in ewes bearing twins at 0.

Ventilation-induced lung injury is not exacerbated by growth restriction in preterm lambs.

Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and preterm birth are frequent comorbidities and, combined, increase the risk of adverse respiratory outcomes compared with that in appropriately grown (AG) infants. Potential underlying reasons for this increased respiratory morbidity in IUGR infants compared with AG infants include altered fetal lung development, fetal lung inflammation, increased respiratory requirements, and/or increased ventilation-induced lung injury. IUGR was surgically induced in preterm fetal sheep (0.