Admissions for hypoglycaemia after 35 weeks of gestation: perinatal predictors of cost of stay.

Background: Hypoglycaemia accounts for approximately one-tenth of term admissions to neonatal units can cause long-term neurodevelopmental impairment and is associated with the significant burden to the affected infants, families and the health system.

Objective: To define the prevalence, length and cost of admissions for hypoglycaemia in infants born at greater than 35 weeks gestation and to identify antenatal and perinatal predictors of those outcomes.

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective audit of infants admitted for hypoglycaemia between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2015, in a level three neonatal intensive care unit at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London.

Stabilisation of premature infants in the delivery room with nasal high flow.

Objective: This was a pilot study to determine the feasibility of using nasal high flow (nHF) (also known as heated humidified high-flow nasal cannula) for stabilisation of babies born at <30 weeks gestation in the delivery room (DR) and transfer to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Design: Observational study.

Setting: Single-centre NICU.