Premature Infant

References

Citations

1. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (2008). Screening for newborn hearing loss. Available online: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstf/uspsnbhr.htm.

2. American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Ophthalmology, et al. (2006). Screening examination of premature infants for retinopathy of prematurity. Pediatrics, 117(2): 572–576. [Errata in Pediatrics, 117(4): 1468 and Pediatrics, 118(3): 1324.]

Other Works Consulted

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2008). Late-preterm infants. ACOG Committee Opinion No. 404. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 111(4): 1029–1032.

• Brazelton TB (2006). Prematurity. In Touchpoints, Birth to Three: Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development, 2nd ed., pp. 351–356. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.

• Chandra S, Baumgart S (2005). Temperature regulation of the premature infant. In HW Taeusch et al., eds., Avery's Diseases of the Newborn, 8th ed., pp. 364–371. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders.

• Committee on Fetus and Newborn, American Academy of Pediatrics (2007). Noninitiation or withdrawal of intensive care for high-risk newborns. Pediatrics, 119(2): 401–403. Also available online: http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/pediatrics;119/2/401.pdf.

• Cunningham FG, et al., eds. (2005). Diseases and injuries of the fetus and newborn. In Williams Obstetrics, 22nd ed., pp. 649–691. New York: McGraw-Hill.

• Engle WA, Committee on Fetus and Newborn (2008). Surfactant-replacement therapy for respiratory distress in the preterm and term neonate. Pediatrics, 121(2): 419–432.

• Engle WA, et al. (2007). "Late-preterm" infants: A population at risk. Pediatrics, 120(6): 1390–1401.

• Halliday HL (2006). Recent clinical trials of surfactant treatment for neonates. Biology of the Neonate, 89(4), pp. 323–329.

• Pignotti MS, Donzelli G (2008). Perinatal care at the threshold of viability: An international comparison of practical guidelines for the treatment of extremely preterm births. Pediatrics, 121(1): e193–e198.

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