Cardio-Respiratory Events and Food Autonomy Responses to Early Uni-Modal Orofacial Stimulation in Very Premature Babies: A Randomized, Controlled Study.

Uni-modal orofacial stimulation (OFS) for preventing very preterm infants' oral disorders is highly controversial. Our study sought to demonstrate that OFS reduced cardio-respiratory events and improved food autonomy in a population of very preterm infants. Our study was randomized, controlled, prospective, and unicentric.

Predictive value of brain MRI at term-equivalent age in extremely preterm children on neurodevelopmental outcome at school-age.

This study's objective was to correlate the abnormalities in brain MRIs performed at corrected-term age for minor or moderate neurocognitive disorders in children school-age born extremely premature (EPT) and without serious sequelae such as autism, cerebral palsy, mental impairment. Data were issued from a cross-sectional multicenter study (GP-Qol study, number NCT01675726). Clinical examination and psychometric assessments were performed when the children were between 7 and 10 years old during a day-long evaluation.

How doctors communicated with parents in a neonatal intensive care: Communication and ethical issues.

Aim: Doctors have a moral and legal obligation to keep patients and their families informed, and this is an integral part of care. We explored the communication strategies used by doctors when they spoke to parents in a French neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Methods: This was a single-centre qualitative pilot study carried out from October 2015 to January 2016.