Improving Delivery Room Resuscitation for Infants with Congenital Anomalies
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CHOP has a core team that performs immediate stabilization and resuscitation of high-risk infants during the time immediately after birth.
Newborn/Infant Intensive Care Unit (N/IICU) News and Updates
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CHOP Helps Develop New Guidelines for Neonatal Resuscitation Studies
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CHOP researchers have led an international group of experts in developing new guidelines for neonatal resuscitation research.
CHOP Researchers Analyze National Registry Data on Perinatal COVID-19
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CHOP researchers have found that before the wide availability of vaccines, newborns were infected with SARS-CoV-2 at variable rates and without apparent short-term effects.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Celebrates 5,000 Deliveries in Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit
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More than 14 years after opening the Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit, the world’s first birth facility exclusively for mothers carrying babies with known birth defects, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia celebrates its 5,000th delivery.
CHOP Study Shows Nearly One-Third of Extremely Premature Infants Develops Late-Onset Sepsis
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CHOP researchers have found nearly one-third of very premature infants develop late-onset sepsis and that 1 in 2 infants born at 23 weeks or earlier either died and/or developed the infection.
SEHA Hospitals, in Collaboration with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, to Host the 1st International Middle East Fetal-Neonatal Cardiovascular Disease Conference
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The conference is held under the patronage of H.E. Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan and in collaboration with the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DOH).
CHOP Surgeons Separate Twin Girls Joined at the Chest and Abdomen
Addison and Lilianna Altobelli spent nearly a year at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia before being separated on October 13, 2021, and are now home in Chicago.
Read moreCHOP Study Finds Infants with Low-Risk Deliveries Should Not Need Antibiotics at Birth
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CHOP researchers have found infants born via uncomplicated cesarean delivery should not need antibiotics at birth to prevent early-onset sepsis.
NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt Features CHOP NICU Halloween Celebrations
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Families in CHOP’s Newborn/Infant Intensive Care Unit (N/IICU) celebrate the spookiest day of the year by dressing babies in adorable Halloween costumes.
CHOP-led Study Finds that Biggest Share of U.S. Obstetric Hospitals Deliver Fewer than 500 Babies Per Year
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CHOP researchers found that a plurality of hospitals delivers fewer than 500 infants per year and that nearly a fifth of low-volume hospitals are more than 30 miles from another obstetric hospital.