Evaluation of gastroschisis feeding protocol: A retrospective cohort study.

Aim: The primary objective of this study is to determine the impact of a standardised feeding protocol for infants with gastroschisis on early enteral feeds, suck feeds, management of gastric residuals and breastfeeding at discharge. Secondary objectives were evaluation of growth, length of stay in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the duration of total parental nutrition (TPN), blood-culture confirmed sepsis and serum bilirubin level (SBR).

Methods: This single-centre retrospective quality improvement project included infants admitted to a quaternary care NICU for management of gastroschisis from 2010 to 2021.

Scoping review of systematic reviews of nursing interventions in a neonatal intensive care unit or special care nursery.

Aim(s): To identify, synthesise and map systematic reviews of the effectiveness of nursing interventions undertaken in a neonatal intensive care unit or special care nursery.

Design: This scoping review was conducted according to the JBI scoping review framework.

Methods: Review included systematic reviews that evaluated any nurse-initiated interventions that were undertaken in an NICU or SCN setting.

Continuous local anaesthetic wound infusion of bupivacaine for postoperative analgesia in neonates: a randomised control trial (CANWIN Study).

Objective: To determine the effect of continuous wound infusion of local anaesthetic drug (bupivacaine) on total amount of systemic opioid use in the first 72 hours in newborn infants undergoing laparotomy.

Design: A two-arm parallel, open-label randomised controlled trial.

Setting: A quaternary newborn intensive care unit.