Executive summary A concerted effort to tackle the global health problem posed by traumatic
brain injury (TBI) is long overdue. TBI is a public health challenge of vast, but insufficiently …

Background This position statement provides clinical recommendations for the assessment
of pain, level of sedation, iatrogenic withdrawal syndrome and delirium in critically ill infants …

Executive summary Every infant, child, and adolescent will experience pain at times
throughout their life. Childhood pain ranges from acute to chronic, and includes procedural …

Background Despite an increasing awareness regarding pain management in neonates and
the availability of published guidelines for the treatment of procedural pain, preterm …

Objective To assess the value of antenatally determined observed to expected fetal lung
area to head circumference ratio (LHR) in the prediction of postnatal survival in isolated …

The aim of this study was to test the reliability and validity of the COMFORT scale as a
postoperative pain instrument for children aged 0–3 years. Subjects were 158 neonates and …

Background Recent trials have questioned the benefit of early parenteral nutrition in adults.
The effect of early parenteral nutrition on clinical outcomes in critically ill children is unclear …

In 2010, the congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) EURO Consortium published a
standardized neonatal treatment protocol. Five years later, the number of participating …

ABSTRACT Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent environmental pollutants which
exert a variety of toxic effects in animals, including disturbances of sexual development and …

Pulmonary hypoplasia associated with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) remains a
major therapeutic problem. Moreover, the pathogenesis of pulmonary hypoplasia in case of …