Neonatal presentation of incontinentia pigmenti with a family history extending over four generations--a case report.

We report a case of Incontinentia pigmenti (IP). A day 2 female presented to the special care nursery with seizures. EEG showed multifocal epileptiform discharges and cranial MRI revealed extensive cerebral infarction.

Mask leak in one-person mask ventilation compared to two-person in newborn infant manikin study.

Aim: To compare a new two-person method (four hands) of delivering mask ventilation with a standard one-person method using the Laerdal self-inflating bag (SIB) and the Neopuff (NP) infant resuscitator in a manikin model.

Background: Recent studies of simulated neonatal resuscitation using bag and mask ventilation techniques have shown facemask leak levels of 55-57% in expert hands.

Methods: 48 participants were randomly paired and instructed to give mask ventilation for a 2-min period as single-person resuscitators, then as two-person paired resuscitators at set pressures for NP and set parameters for SIB.

Ventilator-delivered mask ventilation compared with three standard methods of mask ventilation in a manikin model.

Background: Little is known regarding the variations in effective ventilation during bag and mask resuscitation with standard methods compared with that delivered by ventilator-delivered mask ventilation (VDMV).

Aim: To measure the variations in delivered airway pressure, tidal volume (TV), minute ventilation (MV) and inspiratory time during a 3-min period of mask ventilation comparing VDMV with three commonly used hand-delivered methods of bag and mask ventilation: Laerdal self-inflating bag (SIB); anaesthetic bag and T-piece Neopuff.

Methods: A modified resuscitation manikin was used to measure variation in mechanical ventilation during 3-min periods of mask ventilation.