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Filter by:The SENSE program will be applied to babies receiving treatment in the neonatal intensive care unit and the effect of the application on the baby and parents will be examined.
Preterm birth is a leading cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity. Cervical insufficiency is one factor implicated in the complex mechanisms involved in spontaneous preterm birth. Trans-abdominal insertion of a cervical cerclage suture can be used to treat cervical insufficiency. Growing evidence support that laparoscopic cerclage procedures are safe and effective. Still, many aspects of the laparoscopic cerclage remains uncertain. Therefore, the investigators plan to study the obstetric outcome from the first and subsequent pregnancies after laparoscopic cerclage in a Danish cohort from Aarhus University Hospital in a 10 years' period.
The main goal of this trial is to test if: automated adjustment of supplemental oxygen to preterm infants in noninvasive respiratory support based on feedback from a measurement of blood-oxygen saturation results in more stable blood-oxygenation compared to routine nurse controlled adjustment of oxygen
The management of pain related to venipuncture remains insufficient in very preterm infants (VPI. The separation between the mother (father) and her(his) child can aggravate the short-term painful experience of the newborn. Accurate diagnosis and treatment of pain is necessary to preserve the well-being and brain development of VPI. A better understanding of the development of pain pathways and the cortical integration of nociceptive messages is essential to reach this goal.
Inter-personal brain coupling between preterm infants, their parents and a musician during Creative Music Therapy using functional near-infrared imaging (fNIRI) hyperscanning and systemic physiology measurements
Open pilot of a brief online parenting-skills intervention for young children ages 3-8 who were born very preterm (< 32 weeks gestational age). Parent-child interactions, child behavior, parent functioning, and child white matter connectivity will be assessed pre- and post-intervention 10 weeks later.
Epipage 2 (Epidemiological study on small gestational ages) is a prospective population-based national cohort implemented to better understand the short, mid and long term future of premature children. This study was launched on 28 March 2011 by the researchers of the EPOPé team (Perinatal, Obstetric and Pediatric Epidemiology Research) of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research Centre (INSERM U1153), in collaboration with the Inserm 1027 Unit (Epidemiology and Analysis in Public Health: risks, chronic diseases and handicaps) and medical teams of public health and research in 25 French regions. The study focuses on children born before 35 weeks of amenorrhea. 3 follow-up steps for children included in the cohort have already been completed at 1, 2 and 5 and a half years of age. Currently, nearly 4,000 children are still eligible for follow-up. Since the children are 9 years old, the follow-up steps are shared with those set up in another birth cohort, the Elfe cohort (Étude Longitudinale Française depuis l'Enfance, (www.elfe-france.fr) ), as part of the RE-CO-NAI project. The RE-CO-NAI project is a research platform on cohorts of children followed since birth in order to be able to study in a global and multidisciplinary way the major issues of the health, development and socialization of children. This RE-CO-NAI project was funded by the EQUIPEX 2011 call for projects as part of future investments. This protocol, which is part of the RECONAI project, concerns the fully shared follow-up phase, proposed in the 10th year for the children of the two cohorts.
Pregnancy pathologies can occur from implantation until childbirth. The investigators are interested in the development mechanisms of these pathologies and aim to develop therapies to treat them. The investigators need to collect samples, especially placental samples, following abortions and term and premature deliveries. Abortions will allow investigators to have non-pathological placental material up to 13 weeks. This material will serve as a reference for the understanding of the histological changes that occur in normal placentas collected at term of pregnancy. The latter will, in turn, be compared with the placentas collected during premature deliveries. Also, the abortion product will be cultivated in an environment mimicking the pathology of pre-eclampsia. This study will allow investigators to advance their understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms of the placenta. The investigators are internationally recognized for their research on these pathologies.
Ventilated neonates frequently require supplementary oxygen to allow for adequate oxygen delivery to the tissues and normal cell metabolism. Oxygen treatment should be monitored carefully as both excessive and inadequate dosing can have detrimental effects for the infants. Hypoxia (giving too little oxygen) increases mortality and later disability whereas hyperoxia (giving too much oxygen) increases the risk of complications such as retinopathy of prematurity and lung disease. Although very preterm and low birth weight infants represent the majority of ventilated neonates, more mature infants may also require mechanical ventilation at birth and provision of supplementary oxygen. Therefore, they may suffer from complications related to hypoxia or hyperoxia. Hence, their oxygen saturation levels and the amount of the inspired oxygen concentration provided should be continuously monitored. Oxygen control is traditionally monitored and adjusted manually by the nurse looking after the infant. Closed-loop automated oxygen control (CLAC) is a more recent approach that involves the use of a computer software incorporated into the ventilator. The software uses an algorithm that automatically adjusts the amount of inspired oxygen to maintain oxygen saturation levels in a target range. Evidence suggests that CLAC increases the time spent in the desired oxygen target range, decreases the duration of hypoxia and hyperoxia and reduces the number of manual adjustments required by clinical staff. However previous studies have been limited to very small infants. With this study the investigators aim to evaluate the effectiveness of CLAC in ventilated infants born at 34 weeks gestation and beyond. The achievement of oxygen saturation targets and the number of manual adjustments required will be compared between periods of CLAC and manual control in a cohort of patients that has not been included in previous studies and could also benefit from the intervention. The investigators will also evaluate if CLAC reduces investigations performed to ventilated babies(blood gases, X-rays).
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of co-morbidities on the timing of the achievement of full oral feeding in a cohort of pre-term infants and to evaluate their mode of feeding and feeding status at the time of hospital discharge.