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NEONATAL SOCIETY 2010 SPRING PROGRAMME

The programme below provides the running order for the 2010 Spring Meeting. Abstracts are linked below, but may also be located using the alphabetical index.
Spring Meeting, 25th March 2010
Institute of Child Health, Guildford St, London WC1N 1EH
09.30 Coffee
Session 1: Chair - Dr Helen Budge
10.00 H Ali, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough
Pneumothorax and Air leak
syndromes in the newborn: a cohort study
10.15 P Chandra, Birmingham Women’s Hospital
Outcomes of
surgically treated babies with gastroschisis - a 10 year experience
10.30 L Armstrong, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
Parental
Perception towards Neonatal Post Mortem
10.45 U El-Kafrawy, Salford Royal Hospital
A novel device to
improve the accuracy of incubator scale weights in ventilated neonates
11.00 Morning Tea/Coffee
Session 2: Chair - Dr Alison Forhead
11.15 R Parikh, Birmingham Women’s Hospital
Comparison of
myocardial function in preterm neonates with different sizes of Patent Ductus
Arteriosus using Tissue Doppler Imaging
11.30 N Dellschaft, University of Nottingham
The influence of maternal nutrient restriction in late pregnancy and accelerated
postnatal growth on plasma insulin and leptin and hypothalamic gene expression
following obesity in the sheep
11.45 JR Parkinson, Chelsea and Westminster Campus, Imperial College, London
Altered urinary
metabolome in young adults born below 33 weeks gestation
Session 3: Chair - Dr Anoo Jain
12.00 Keynote speaker: Professor
Per Sangild, Department of Human Nutrition, University of Copenhagen
First nutrition and the gastrointestinal tract
13.00 Lunch
Session 4: Chair - Professor Howard Clark
14.15 MV Tsakmakis, University of Bristol
Seizures in
term newborn infants: The need for aEEG and MRI to guide diagnosis
14.30 J Marinova, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Interpreting cerebral
function monitor traces: survey of skills in Paediatric registrars in the Oxford
deanery
14.45 J Tooley, St Michael’s Neonatal Unit, Bristol
Therapeutic
Hypothermia after Perinatal Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy - Is it the
standard of care in the UK?
15.00 K O’Reilly, St Michael’s Neonatal Unit, Bristol
Therapeutic
Hypothermia during transport - Which method is the most effective and reliable?
15.15 Neonatal Society Student Prize: Amanda Sadek, Medical Student, University of Leeds Admission temperatures of preterm infants between two developing and developed countries
15.30 Coffee
Session 5: Chair - Professor Kate Costeloe
15.45 P Chandra, Birmingham Women’s Hospital
Outcomes of neonatal
exchange transfusion - 11 year experience
16.00 D Birahinduka, Northwick Park Hospital, Middlesex
Improving
neonatal admission temperature following introduction of a workshop simulation
and a new practice guideline
16.15 S Santhakumaran, Chelsea & Westminster Campus, Imperial College London
Mortality of
preterm babies receiving intensive care in non-level 3 neonatal units
16.30 The
McCance Lecture: Professor Neil Marlow Professor of Neonatal Medicine, UCL
EGA Institute for Women’s Health, UCL London
Preterm Neurodevelopment - strategies to avoid long term follow up
17.30 Drinks and Close of Meeting
