Neurodevelopment at two years and appropriate schooling at five years in children born very preterm.

Aim: This single-centre French cohort study evaluated the relationship between standardised assessment at 2 years of corrected age and schooling level at 5 years of age in children born at ≤32 weeks' gestational age.

Methods: This was a single-centre retrospective study of children born preterm between 2010 and 2014 included in a follow-up network. At 5 years of age, the population was divided into 2 groups: (1) 'appropriate schooling', defined as age-appropriate schooling without support, and (2) 'schooling with support'.

Management of neonatal spontaneous intestinal perforation by peritoneal needle aspiration.

Objective: To describe conservative management of spontaneous intestinal perforation (SIP) in preterm infants using peritoneal needle aspiration (PNA).

Study Design: Monocentric retrospective review of SIP cases treated primarily by PNA between 1999 and 2015 (n=31).

Results: Mean gestational age was 29.

Diagnosis Accuracy of Transcutaneous Bilirubinometry in Very Preterm Newborns.

Background: Transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) is a validated test for systematic screening of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and monitoring term and near-term infants under phototherapy.

Objectives: To evaluate TcB diagnostic accuracy for very preterm neonates.

Methods: Total serum bilirubin (TSB) and TcB measurements were performed prospectively in a multicenter sample of newborns <30 weeks of gestational age (GA).

[Extensive swelling reaction after a pentavalent vaccination].

Injection site reactions (ISRs) are quite common side effects defined by a local adverse drug reaction directly caused by a vaccine. Twenty-four hours after an intramuscular injection (in the deltoid muscle) of the diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, inactivated poliomyelitis, Haemophilus influenza type b (DTPCa-Hib) combined vaccine, a 3-year-old boy developed fever. A few hours later, local redness and swelling appeared at the injection site, with rapid extension to the entire limb, it was pain-free, and no other clinical anomalies were present.

Retransfusion of shed blood collected in drains after Total Knee Replacement.

Background: Total knee arthroplasty is associated with a perioperative blood loss, which is usually addressed with transfusion of allogenic blood. The possible risks of such treatment include viral infection, immunologic complications and occasional lack of blood products. Recently, retransfusion of blood recovered from the operative field or drains has become an effective treatment for blood loss.