Volume 1, Issue 2, Summer 2011
Editor’s Sampler
Its Jam Packed this Time! (The editors highlight this issue)
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What is CoPS and Why Should We Care? (An interview with Vicky Norwood)
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How the ACGME’s Proposed 2013 Residency Changes May Affect Neonatal Training (a brief summary from eJNR)
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CoPS Invitation to Participate in a Survey on the 2013 Residency Changes (includes links to the ACGME documents)
What Do Neos Think? (a survey about the current intern work hours)
Original Research and Review Manuscripts
Randomized Controlled Trials Need Stratification by Types of Acquired Neonatal Intestinal Diseases
Joshua T. Attridge, Santina A. Zanelli, Matthew J. Gurka, and David A. Kaufman
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Review of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes Associated with Environmental & Dietary Factors
Euming Chong
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Robert P. Lemke, Michael Farrah, and Paul J. Byrne
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Does the Duration of Platelet Transfusion Affect Platelet Counts?
Douglas C. Dannaway, Azif Safarulla, and Shahab Noori
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Special Section - Maintenance of Certification
Letters to the Editor
The Future of the NICHD Pediatric Trial Network
Katherine Berezny, P. Brian Smith, and Daniel K. Benjamin Jr
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Do Clinicians in Your Community Use Mineral Oil During Delivery?
Stacey M. Fink
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Making Sense of the Recent Oxygen Saturation Trials
Robert Ursprung
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Invitation to the 9th Annual International Congress for Tropical Pediatrics
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Editors’ Choice: Top 10 publications in neonatology
1. Wright CJ, Kirpalani H. Targeting Inflammation to Prevent Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: Can New Insights Be Translated Into Therapies? Pediatrics. 2011 Jun 6.
2. Lorch SA, Maheshwari P, Even-Shoshan O. The impact of certificate of need programs on neonatal intensive care units. J Perinatol. 2011 Apr 28.
3. Park KT, Nespor C, Kerner J Jr. The use of Omegaven in treating parenteral nutrition-associated liver disease. J Perinatol. 2011 Apr;31 Suppl 1:S57-60.
4. Demauro SB, Roberts RS, Davis P, Alvaro R, Bairam A, Schmidt B; Caffeine for Apnea of Prematurity Trial Investigators. Impact of Delivery Room Resuscitation on Outcomes up to 18 Months in Very Low Birth Weight Infants. J Pediatr. 2011 May 16.
5. Lambert DK, Christensen RD, Baer VL, Henry E, Gordon PV, Besner GE, Wilkes J, Wiedmeier SE, Gerday E. Fulminant necrotizing enterocolitis in a multihospital healthcare system. J Perinatol. 2011 May 12.
6. Clark RH, Gordon P, Walker WM, Laughon M, Smith PB, Spitzer AR. Characteristics of patients who die of necrotizing enterocolitis. J Perinatol. 2011 May 19.
7. Chang JJ, Macones GA. Birth Outcomes of Planned Home Births in Missouri: A Population-Based Study. Am J Perinatol. 2011 Mar 4.
8. Laughon M, Bose C, Allred EN, Oʼshea TM, Ehrenkranz RA, Van Marter LJ, Leviton A; for the ELGAN Study Investigators. Patterns of blood protein concentrations of ELGANs classified by three patterns of respiratory disease in the first two postnatal weeks. Pediatr Res. 2011 Jun 3.
9. Ehrenkranz RA, DAS A, Wrage LA, Poindexter BB, Higgins RD, Stoll BJ, Oh W; The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. Early Nutrition Mediates the Influence of Severity of Illness on Extremely LBW Infants. Pediatr Res. 2011 Jun;69(6):522-529.
10. Hintz SR, Stevenson DK, Yao Q, Wong RJ, Das A, Van Meurs KP, Morris BH, Tyson JE, Oh W, Poole WK, Phelps DL, McDavid GE, Grisby C, Higgins RD; for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network (see Acknowledgements in Supporting Information, Data S1). Is phototherapy exposure associated with better or worse outcomes in 501- to 1000-g-birth-weight infants? Acta Paediatr. 2011 Jul;100(7):960-965.
After reading all ten manuscripts, take the CURRENT IN NEONATOLOGY LITERATURE CERTIFICATION TEST (Vol 1, Issue 2).
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Neonatology Master Class
Review of Acquired Neonatal Intestinal Diseases and Best Practices
1. Afrazi A, Sodhi CP, Richardson W, Neal M, Good M, Siggers R, Hackam DJ. New insights into the pathogenesis and treatment of necrotizing enterocolitis: Toll-like receptors and beyond. Pediatr Res. 2011 Mar;69(3):183-8.
2.Gordon PV, Swanson JR, Attridge JT, Clark R. Emerging trends in acquired neonatal intestinal disease: is it time to abandon Bell’s criteria? J Perinatol. 2007 Nov;27(11):661-71.
5. González-Rivera R, Culverhouse RC, Hamvas A, Tarr PI, Warner BB. The age of necrotizing enterocolitis onset: an application of Sartwell’s incubation period model. J Perinatol. 2011 Jan 27.
6. Sullivan S, Schanler RJ, Kim JH, Patel AL, Trawöger R, Kiechl-Kohlendorfer U, Chan GM, Blanco CL, Abrams S, Cotten CM, Laroia N, Ehrenkranz RA, Dudell G, Cristofalo EA, Meier P, Lee ML, Rechtman DJ, Lucas A. An exclusively human milk-based diet is associated with a lower rate of necrotizing enterocolitis than a diet of human milk and bovine milk-based products. J Pediatr. 2010 Apr;156(4):562-7.e1.
7. Deshpande G, Rao S, Patole S, Bulsara M. Updated meta-analysis of probiotics for preventing necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm neonates. Pediatrics. 2010 May;125(5):921-30.
9. Sola JE, Tepas JJ 3rd, Koniaris LG. Peritoneal drainage versus laparotomy for necrotizing enterocolitis and intestinal perforation: a meta-analysis. J Surg Res. 2010 Jun 1;161(1):95-100.
10. Rees CM, Eaton S, Khoo AK, Kiely EM; Members of NET Trial Group, Pierro A. Peritoneal drainage does not stabilize extremely low birth weight infants with perforated bowel: data from the NET Trial. J Pediatr Surg. 2010 Feb;45(2):324-8; discussion 328-9.
After reading all ten manuscripts, TAKE THE A.N.I.D. KNOWLEDGE CERTIFICATION TEST
About non-CME Credit - non-CME credit may be recognized and can be used to supplant limited amounts of CME credit by hospital credentialing boards if its content is specific to your area of specialty and you petition for that consideration. eJNR will maintain this content on our site so that it can be evaluated by your hospital credentialling board and will post the names of all individuals who pass on our bulletin board to facilitate independent verification. You may only submit answers once.
Editor’s Extra’s
Retrospectoscope
Was the real driver behind resident work hour reform, avoidance of house staff unionization?
FDA warning issued for Simply Thick in preterm infants due to 15 cases of late onset NEC
Clinicians advised not to administer Simply Thick to infants under 37 weeks gestation
Standard concentrations of Neonatal Drug Infusions (from the ISMP & VON – click here for chart)
The FDA National Drug Shortages Web List
This is a relatively recent ISMP evaluation of the impact of drug shortages on health care quality.
The TRAGI (Transfusion Related Acute Gut Injury) Registry Site
Rejections
There was no rejected manuscript(s) and zero rejected letter(s) for this volume (we will NOT publish specific information about individual rejections).
