Objectives Using the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD), this work aims to investigate and quantify the characteristics of children dying of COVID-19, and to identify any changes in rate of ...

Approximately 60% of term and 80% of preterm babies develop jaundice. This often requires inpatient hospital treatment with phototherapy. Home Phototherapy is not well-established within the UK as ...

Correspondence to Dr Nils Krone, Academic Unit of Child Health, Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TH, UK; n.krone{at}sheffield.ac.uk Steroid biosynthesis ...

Correspondence to Brenda Kimbembi Maleco Littler, The School of Health and Related Research, Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare (C.A.T.C.H), The University of Sheffield Faculty ...

Paediatric early warning systems (PEWS) to reduce in-hospital mortality have been a laudable endeavour. Evaluation of their impact has rarely examined the internal validity of the components of PEWS ...

It is well known that children are less likely to be severely affected by Covid 19 than the adult population, and therefore the pandemic earlier this year placed greater demand on adult services.

Introduction Hypothermia (temperature <36.5°C) is a major risk factor for neonatal mortality, particularly when associated with prematurity and infection. Hypothermia is widely reported in tropical ...

Objectives Observational studies have associated poor sleep with aggression. Evidence in adolescents is scarce, and often restricted to small clinical samples, which are not generalizable to normative ...

The low availability of folic acid or vitamin B12 in the early pregnancy and consequent mother’s hyperhomocysteinemia are associated with the risk of having a child with congenital heart disease. The ...

100.000 children. It is notably associated with Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon (KMP), a condition characterised by profound thrombocytopenia, hypofibrinogenemia, and elevated markers of coagulation ...

Introduction Multiple acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency (MADD) or glutaric aciduria type II is a rare, autosomal recessive disorder of fatty acid and amino acid oxidation. Disease is caused by ...

Background The implementation of virtual clinics (telephone or video consultations) has gained momentum during the COVID-19 pandemic. The NHS long term plan outlines reducing face to face ...