Publications by authors named "F Beske"
Background: As a rule, newborns do not require special medical care. If unexpected complications occur peripartum or postpartum, support from and transport to specialised neonatal hospitals might be needed.
Methods: In a retrospective study, all transport protocols of a supraregional paediatric‑neonatological maximum care hospital in northwestern Germany from 01.
Background: The advantage of breast milk feeding, and supplementation of probiotics is well known and proven. However, the lack of reliable amounts of colostrum and/or transient breast milk during the first few postnatal days might inhibit timely enteral nutrition.
Methods: The aim of this nationwide survey in German Level-1 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) was to collect data regarding the management of feeding in the first days of life in very low birth weight infants (VLBWIs, birth weight<1500 g).
Aim: Due to the functional immaturity of bowel motility, a delayed passage frequently requires evacuation of meconium in preterm infants. Often rectal enemas and oral laxatives are used to manage these bowel evacuation disorders.
Methods: An online survey was sent to all 163 high-level Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) in Germany.
Objectives: Pediatric severe sepsis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and hematopoietic cell transplant patients represent a high-risk population. We assessed the epidemiology of severe sepsis in hematopoietic cell transplant patients, describing patient outcomes compared with children with no history of hematopoietic cell transplant.
Design: Secondary analysis of the Sepsis PRevalence, OUtcomes, and Therapies point prevalence study, comparing demographics, sepsis etiology, illness severity, organ dysfunction, and sepsis-related treatments in patients with and without hematopoietic cell transplant.