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Hi. Somebody use PCT before PCR in neonatal screening of infection in neonates with prenatal risk factors? Actually we use first PCR, and I think it is OK. Some young collegues are very entusiastic with PCT, but I¨m not so sure. Thank you

Total body cooling: skin and renal complications Subcutaneous fat necrosis (SFN) is a rare, self-limiting panniculitis mostly reported in infancy and childhood. Newborns and infants have a greater saturated to unsaturated fats ratio in their subcutaneous fat compared with older children and adults, causing an increased tendency to crystallise with cold stress.1 A full-term baby suffering hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) and treated with total body hypothermia is reported. SFN was fi rst noted on physical examination at 35 h of life, presenting with a very painful erythema on t

Think about lesions due to hypotermia in your cooled baby.

Hi. I`m very interesting in bibliography about discharge nutrition plans in preterms. Thank you. I need information.

Is about a new aproach of nasal ventilation. (non invasive ventilation). With short nasal prons.

Sorry, i asked about non invasive high frecuency ventilation¡, not about nasal high flow!

Some new about DAP ?? My collegues don´t believe in Nicks Evans guidelines ¡¡¡

Hi Urban, Do you have bibliogrphy?

Ok.. Nasal hfvo. We use non invasive ventilation, CPAPn, and lisa/mist, and high flow nasal canulas. I have read some reports about nasal HFVO, but with little numbers of Newborn.

Again from spain¡¡ helow¡¡ Has anybody experience in nasal VAFO?. Thank you.

What do you think about Medin CNO ? Is a CPAPn generator with benveniste sistem. Has anybody expirience with nasal VAFO. Any guidelines?

We don't use sedation. They don't show disconfort.

In surfactant topic, you have de references of LISA and MIST. We use it (since a year ago 15 preterm) and we have good results

About CPAP machines: dose anybody use medijet vs infant flow sipap? If you have to buy a new CPAPn machine, what is your opinion?