[Neonatal survival and health in Denmark].

This review gives a summary of Danish preterm care, which has been defined by national adaptation of antenatal corticosteroids in the 1970ies and continuous positive airway pressure in the 1980ies. Today, preterm survival in Denmark is high, by international standards, but lower than in the neighbouring countries Sweden and Norway. The lack of a national neonatal quality database may offer an explanation to this.

Improvement in perinatal care for extremely premature infants in Denmark from 1994 to 2011.

Introduction: Major advances in perinatal care over the latest decades have increased the survival rate of extremely premature infants. Centralisation of perinatal care was implemented in Denmark from 1995. This study evaluates the effect of organisational changes of perinatal care on survival and morbidity of live-born infants with gestational ages (GA) of 22-28 weeks.

[Congenital methaemoglobinaemia: an infrequent cause of neonatal cyanosis].

We present a case study of a newborn girl with a reduced erythrocytic nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH)-dependent methaemoglobin reductase level. Within the first days of life she developed cyanosis due to a methaemoglobin level of 21%. The hyperoxia test was characteristic, with normal increases in blood oxygen tension, whereas the oxygen saturation remained constant at 92%.

[Neonatal hypernatraemic dehydration--why increasing incidence?].

Introduction: Neonatal dehydration with hypernatraemia is a serious condition with risk of cerebral damage and death. Recent studies have reported a rising incidence.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study was conducted at Hvidovre Hospital over a 5-year period to identify term or near-term infants (>35 weeks of gestation) who were admitted with a weight-loss >10%.