Implementing a standardized gastroschisis protocol significantly increases the rate of primary sutureless closure without compromising closure success or early clinical outcomes.

Purpose: Standardized protocols have been shown to improve outcomes in several pediatric surgical conditions. We implemented a multi-disciplinary gastroschisis practice bundle at our institution in 2013. We sought to evaluate its impact on closure type and early clinical outcomes.

Parenteral nutrition-associated liver disease: a retrospective study of ursodeoxycholic Acid use in neonates.

Objectives: To verify the effect of ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) on the duration of neonatal parenteral nutrition-associated liver disease.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study of neonates in intensive care between 2004 and 2007 presenting with parenteral nutrition-associated liver disease.

Results: Of 118 eligible infants, 64 received UDCA.

Cohort study of probiotics in a North American neonatal intensive care unit.

Objective: To determine whether routine probiotic administration to very preterm infants would reduce the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) without adverse consequences.

Study Design: Since the end of July 2011, we have administered a probiotic mixture to all admitted infants of <32 weeks' gestation. We give 0.

Comparison between standard heparin and tinzaparin for haemodialysis catheter lock.

Tinzaparin offers some advantages over unfractionated heparin (UFH) for hemodialysis circuit anticoagulation. No study has compared these two molecules as hemodialysis catheter locks. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of tinzaparin and UFH as locks for hemodialysis tunnelled central venous catheter in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD).