Palliative Care for Newborns in India: Patterns of Care in a Neonatal Palliative Care Program at a Tertiary Government Children's Hospital.

Neonatal palliative care is a specialized area within children's palliative care, which focusses on the needs of infants with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. Nearly one quarter of global neonatal deaths occur in India, where neonatal palliative care evidence is limited. This study describes the development and implementation of a neonatal palliative care program within a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at a government hospital, describing the implementing an 8-month pilot palliative care program for neonates, including the patterns of care, and barriers and enablers of success.

Predictors of Mortality in Neonatal Pneumonia: An INCLEN Childhood Pneumonia Study.

Background: Neonatal pneumonia contributes significantly to mortality due to pneumonia in the under-five age group, but the predictors of mortality are largely unknown.

Objectives: To evaluate the clinical and microbiological characteristics and other risk factors that predict mortality in neonates admitted with pneumonia in tertiary care centres.

Study Design: Prospective observational cohort study.

Congenital Fatal Diarrhea in Newborns.

Microvillus inclusion disease is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of intestinal epithelium causing intractable secretary diarrhea in the first two months of life and about 140 cases have been reported worldwide till now. Here authors report 2 cases of Microvillus inclusion disease (MVID) diagnosed in neonates by electron microscopy study of small intestinal biopsy.