The effect of sleeping position on heart rate variability in newborns.

Background: Lower heart rate variability (HRV) in a newborn might represent a risk factor for unfavourable outcome, a longer recovery after illness, and a sudden infant death. Our aim was to determine whether the newborn's sleeping position is associated with HRV.

Methods: We performed a prospective clinical study in 46 hospitalized cardiorespiratory stable term newborns.

Passive therapeutic hypothermia during ambulance and helicopter secondary neonatal transport in neonates with hypoxic brain injury: a 10-year retrospective survey.

Background: Therapeutic hypothermia is a method of treatment in newborns with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. Hypothermia should be initiated no later than 6 h after birth. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of the passive therapeutic cooling during neonatal transport.