Premedication before laryngoscopy in neonates: Evidence-based statement from the French society of neonatology (SFN).

Context: Laryngoscopy is frequently required in neonatal intensive care. Awake laryngoscopy has deleterious effects but practice remains heterogeneous regarding premedication use. The goal of this statement was to provide evidence-based good practice guidance for clinicians regarding premedication before tracheal intubation, less invasive surfactant administration (LISA) and laryngeal mask insertion in neonates.

Assessment of rewarming methods in unplanned out-of-hospital births from a prospective cohort.

Background: Mobile intensive care units frequently manage unplanned out-of-hospital births (UOHB). Rewarming methods during pre-hospital management of UOHB have not yet been compared. The aim was to compare rewarming methods used during pre-hospital management in a large prospective cohort of UOHB in France.

Out-of-maternity deliveries in France: A nationwide population-based study.

Introduction: In France, many maternity hospitals have been closed as a result of hospital restructuring in an effort to reduce costs through economies of scale. These closures have naturally increased the distance between home and the closest maternity ward for women throughout the country. However, studies have shown a positive correlation between this increase in distance and the incidence of unplanned out-of-maternity deliveries (OMD).

Premedication practices for tracheal intubation in neonates transported by French medical transport teams: a prospective observational study.

Objectives: Premedication practices for neonatal tracheal intubations have not yet been described for neonatal transport teams. Our objective is to describe the use of sedation/analgesia (SA) for tracheal intubations and to assess its tolerance in neonates transported by medical transport teams in France.

Setting: This prospective observational study was part of the EPIPPAIN 2 project and collected around-the-clock data on SA practices in neonates intubated by all five paediatric medical transport teams of the Paris region during a 2-month period.

Correction: Passive hypothermia (≥35 - <36°C) during transport of newborns with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy.

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Pain Assessment in Children Younger Than 8 Years in Out-of-Hospital Emergency Medicine: Reliability and Validity of EVENDOL Score.

Objective: Pain in children is underestimated and undertreated in out-of-hospital emergency medicine. In this setting, caregivers need a reliable pain scale, but none has been validated. A single observational pain scale for all children younger than 8 years, EVENDOL, has been validated in emergency pediatric units.

Guidelines for care of the newborn baby at birth knowledge by prehospital emergency physicians.

Introduction: In 2010, the International Liaison Committee On Resuscitation (ILCOR) guidelines for care of the newborn baby immediately after birth were published.

Materials And Methods: Using a questionnaire that was distributed to a sample of 44 prehospital emergency physicians (April 2014), we assessed knowledge of these guidelines, in particular specificities for newborns as compared to adults. Twenty-five questions, starting with a birth with no problems to one resulting in neonatal distress, were used to profile the practice of the surveyed physicians.

Outcomes of Preterm Neonates Transferred Between Tertiary Perinatal Centers.

Objective: To verify if preterm neonates transferred between tertiary referral centers have worse outcomes than matched untransferred infants.

Design: Cohort study with a historically matched control group.

Setting: Two tertiary-level neonatal ICUs.

Rates of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in very preterm neonates in Europe: results from the MOSAIC cohort.

Background: A considerable local variability in the rate of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) has been recorded previously.

Objectives: The objectives of the present study were to describe regional differences in the rate of BPD in very preterm neonates from a European population-based cohort and to further delineate risk factors.

Methods: 4,185 survivors to 36 weeks' postmenstrual age of 4,984 live-born infants born at 24+0-31+6 weeks' gestation in 2003 (the MOSAIC cohort) in 10 European regions were enrolled using predefined structured questionnaires.

Differences in rates and short-term outcome of live births before 32 weeks of gestation in Europe in 2003: results from the MOSAIC cohort.

Objectives: Advances in perinatal medicine increased survival after very preterm birth in all countries, but comparative population-based data on these births are not readily available. This analysis contrasts the rates and short-term outcome of live births before 32 weeks of gestation in 10 European regions.

Methods: The Models of Organizing Access to Intensive Care for Very Preterm Births (MOSAIC) study collected prospective data on all very preterm births in 10 European regions covering 494,463 total live births in 2003.

Risk factors for not delivering in a level III unit before 32 weeks of gestation: results from a population-based study in Paris and surrounding districts in 2003.

Delivery of very preterm babies in maternity units with on-site neonatal intensive care (level III units) is associated with lower mortality and morbidity. This analysis explores risk factors for not delivering in a level III unit, using data from a population-based study of very preterm births in Paris and surrounding districts in 2003. The sample for analysis included resident women with a fetus alive at the onset of labour between 24 and 31 weeks of gestation (n = 641).