Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Resource Use for Infants at 22 Weeks' Gestation in the US, 2008-2021.

Importance: During the past decade, clinical guidance about the provision of intensive care for infants born at 22 weeks' gestation has changed. The impact of these changes on neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) resource utilization is unknown.

Objective: To characterize recent trends in NICU resource utilization for infants born at 22 weeks' gestation compared with other extremely preterm infants (≤28 weeks' gestation) and other NICU-admitted infants.

Trends in Procedural Closure of the Patent Ductus Arteriosus among Infants Born at 22 to 30 Weeks' Gestation.

Objective: To describe recent trend in procedural closure of the patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) among premature infants and compare the clinical characteristics of infants receiving surgical vs transcatheter closure.

Study Design: We conducted a descriptive, retrospective cohort study of preterm infants born between 22 and 29 weeks' gestation from 2014 through 2021. Infants were identified from the Pediatrix Clinical Data Warehouse.

Initial resuscitation of a neonate with congenital maxillomandibular syngnathia: A case report and literature review.

We report a full-term male neonate found to have undiagnosed syngnathia requiring extensive resuscitation at birth followed by urgent tracheostomy. We conducted a systematic literature review to study the presentation, resuscitation methods, and outcomes of neonates with congenital syngnathia. Of the 174 cases reported to date, 91 had initial resuscitation data available.

Intensive care resources required to care for critically ill children with focal intracranial infections.

The authors reviewed cases in which children with a focal infection inside the head (ex: a brain abscess) were cared for in their pediatric ICU to describe the frequency of complications and quantify the ICU resources needed (ex: breathing tube, blood pressure medications, and/or an intracranial pressure monitor). This information helps clarify illness severity and has identified complications that we should further investigate to improve care for these children.