Stefan Johansson

@ali @DineshNPatel @Plyon0962 Thanks! @Plyon0962 I saw pictures from Texas on the News yesterday, crazy weather! Looks like Sweden in December Now, when we should have winter, it all melts away... Climate is off-route.

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@feraszaman and @JoannieO, thanks! It's fantastic and still feels almost unreal - our son will be 15 years old this summer... I am not the religious kind but it's kind of a miracle that she came to us after all this time!

Finally, our wait was over two weeks ago - our little daughter was born. Although there were no indications of the opposite, we were much relieved to find that she is a healthy little girl! Ellen Märta Maria is her name. Our son calls her "Ellen Furious". I'd say that she has character!

Looks interesting! Have you tried it in a real project?

I have only experience from Sweden, where there are no RTs. Here, the team nurse is technically responsible for the O2 sats, but the assisting nurse is recording the sats (and pulse etc) in the nursing charts here.

Haha! Wish the same, Happy Neo Year!

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Hi again and thanks for your feedback! You're right! The problem is, we use this software "as is" "out-of-the-box". I wish I was able to customize the forums to something better but I am not skilled enough to do this. Sorry about this but after all, I am a amateur when it comes to computers. That's ok. And if you find time later, you could still write a review. You can change your DST settings in your own control panel. Click on SETTINGS in the top right corner, and then click GENERAL SETTINGS in the left-hand column. Scroll down and you can change your own to the correct DST setting. Happy New Year from a frosty Stockholm!

Thanks for your kind words! Thanks for solving this yourself, you used the right method ("click & go, trial & error")! Once a member is logged in, this is really the best method. But, we also have a short manual... http://www.99nicu.org/forum/showthread.php?807-User-Manual-for-99nicu BTW: I moved your thread to the Feedback & Support forum.

Will look into this!

There are echo courses in London, UK: check this link out: http://www.rbht.nhs.uk/healthprofessionals/clinical-departments/paediatrics/morphology/ (I and a few colleagues used to organize ultrasound courses in Stockholm (brain+heart). Unfortunately, there is no course in pipeline...)

I heard about this site but I cannot get it working using Safari, Firefox, Chrome... any advice?

Just wanted to say Happy Holidays to everyone! Looking forward to 2011 and charged batteries!

Thanks for your comment. Hans Rosling was one of my teachers in Uppsala, Sweden, where I was a medical student. A truly fascinating and very inspiring doctor! One of my role models back then, although I never made my way to Africa and work there.

In case you have missed this... Researchers at the Charité university hospital in Berlin, Germany, had (convinced?) a pregnant woman to deliver her baby in an MRI camera! Spectacular experiment! Creating buzz and headlines! If you ask me, this is a great combination of great PR work and serious research. Everyone involved gets fame and cred (also the baby I hope), and the research group will be granted to take their work to new heights. We need to learn more about the birthday, probably the most hazardous day in our lifes (if we don’t consider our very last day, lethal as it is...) The actual journey to life, so often complicated (as you know), needs more researched. Off-topic: while browsing the Charité web I found an extraordinary webcam. These German cranes make me... happy!

The guidelines are now online but only in Swedish. Try to use Google translate: Overview: http://www.vardhandboken.se/Texter/Brostmjolkshantering/Oversikt/ Milk from the infant's mother: http://www.vardhandboken.se/Texter/Brostmjolkshantering/Fran-egna-modern/ Milk from donor: http://www.vardhandboken.se/Texter/Brostmjolkshantering/Fran-givare/ Practical handling: http://www.vardhandboken.se/Texter/Brostmjolkshantering/Praktisk-hantering/ References: http://www.vardhandboken.se/Texter/Brostmjolkshantering/Referenser/

I do not have the document in PDF unfortunately, and the guidelines are not longer availabel on the web, probably due to a revision process going on. The only web page online seems to be the references: http://www.vardhandboken.se/Texter/Brostmjolkshantering/Referenser/ There you find ref's to guidelines in English (UK and US) But, I found cached web pages on Google (today's Big Brother...) http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kT0ogUFoPJoJ:www.vardhandboken.se/Texter/Brostmjolkshantering/Oversikt/+Bro%CC%88stmjo%CC%88lkshantering&cd=2&hl=sv&ct=clnk&gl=se&client=firefox-a http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:e5cCcSDJh-0J:www.vardhandboken.se/Texter/Brostmjolkshantering/Praktisk-hantering/+Bro%CC%88stmjo%CC%88lkshantering&cd=3&hl=sv&ct=clnk&gl=se&client=firefox-a http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZZGRpPngfE0J:www.vardhandboken.se/Texter/Brostmjolkshantering/Fran-givare/+Bro%CC%88stmjo%CC%88lkshantering&cd=4&hl=sv&ct=clnk&gl=se&client=firefox-a

Hi! Well, I think I get the theory but know that this can be tricky IRL , therefore I look at more than just a pos/neg figure of fluid balance. Before deciding about feeding, infusions, diuretics etc-etc. I think you already know this, the balance is (fluids in)-(fluids out). Usually we know how we feed and infuse, but the fluid losses (perspiratio, evaporation, urine, feces) can be difficult to assess as a precise number. Of course, the balance has some impact, but I also try to assess other clinical signs (edema), the weight, ultrasound (such as contractility, venous filling in critically) etc as well. In addition, even a positive fluid balance may not mean an increased cardiovascular load, since fluids commonly enter the extravascular/interstitial space, for example in very sick infants. Fluid management in the NICU, a topic for a book!

Great resource! Thanks for sharing!

Hans Rosling: Swedish physician international health researcher founder of Gapminder.org great speaker in 2009, one of the top 100 global thinkers You may have seen his talks on Youtube or TED before, but in case you haven't, enjoy this!

Read this thread about osmolarity. It seems that practises vary, some seem to go as high as 1800 mosmol/l. Personally, I'd not advocate such high osmolarity, even central lines can result in extravasation and a very hypertonic solution i any extravascular space... http://www.99nicu.org/forum/showthread.php?760-NICU-TPN-OSMOLARITY Maybe this reference may give you some information about hypertonic solutions: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12389676

Sounds as if you need a very large study sample for such a study, to get statistical power. Have you done a power calculation (i.e. what mortalities do you consider likely in the LBW/SGA group and in the control AGA group)?

I tried searching PubMed using the Mesh terms "Infants, small for gestational age" and "Postop complications" Few hits: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Infant,+Small+for+Gestational+Age%22[Mesh]+AND+%22Postoperative+Complications%22[Mesh] What kind of postop problem/prognosis are you searching for? (mortality, morbidity, emesis, pain etc?)