Delivery room dextrose gel for preterm hypoglycaemia (the GEHPPI study): a randomised placebo-controlled trial.

Objective: Early hypoglycaemia at the time of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission is common in very/extreme preterm infants. This study aimed to determine whether buccal dextrose gel in the delivery room (DR) would improve rates of early hypoglycaemia in this population.

Design: Randomised, blinded, placebo-controlled trial.

Current management of neonatal abstinence syndrome: a survey of practice in the UK and Ireland.

Objective: To study the current management practices of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) throughout the UK and Ireland and identify changes in practice from the most recent survey in 2008.

Design: Postal questionnaire to a consultant paediatrician or neonatologist in all 215 neonatal units in the UK and Ireland in January 2020.

Results: Response rate was 62%.

Whole exome sequencing based identification of a case of cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome type 3: the benefits of new sequencing technology in children with neurodevelopmental delay.

We report the case of a boy with a prolonged diagnostic workup for global developmental delay alongside feeding difficulties, failure to thrive, pulmonary stenosis and macrocephaly. Following a series of diagnostic tests over the first 25 months of life, whole-exome sequencing was performed which diagnosed cardiofaciocutaenous syndrome type 3.Global developmental delay is a common presentation to general paediatric and community paediatric clinics.

Can simulation-based education and precision teaching improve paediatric trainees' behavioural fluency in performing lumbar puncture? A pilot study.

Background: Low levels of success in performing lumbar puncture have been observed among paediatric trainees. This study assessed the efficacy of simulation-based education with frequency building and precision teaching for training lumbar puncture to behavioural fluency.

Methods: The intervention group was assessed at baseline, at the final training trial, in the presence of distraction, and a minimum of one month after the cessation of the intervention in order to ascertain whether behavioural fluency in lumbar puncture was obtained.