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NEONATAL SOCIETY 2011 SUMMER
PROGRAMME
The programme below provides the running order for the 2011 Summer Meeting. Abstracts are not published on the Society website, but in Archives of Disease in Childhood. Where applicable links to the relevant abstract are included below.
Summer Meeting, 15th - 17th June 2011
A joint meeting with British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society, the British Association of Perinatal Medicine and the Neonatal Nurses Association, held at the Harrogate International Centre, Harrogate, UK.
Wednesday 15th June 2011
Session 1: Pre Term Birth. Chairs – Professor David Field & Professor Stephen Robson
13.00 The BAPM Founder's Lecture: Professor Jay D. Iams, Columbus, USA
Inequalities related to pre-term birth
13.40 The BMFMS Society Lecture: Professor Roberto Romero, Michigan, USA
Intra-amniotic infection/inflammation preterm labour and
fetal injury
14.20 The NNA Keynote Lecture: Professor Linda Franck, San Francisco, USA
Will my babies hate me when they are older? Fears and facts
about the effects of neonatal pain
15.00 Tea and Exhibition
Session 2: Chairs - Professor Howard Clark & Mrs Jackie Stretton
15.30 Routine probiotics for preterm babies? Professor Kate Costeloe, London, UK
16.00 Free Papers:
- Can we improve delivery room monitoring for newborns? a novel photoplethysmographic heart rate monitor evaluated among stable NICU infants. C Mann et al ADC link
- Severe neonatal hypernatraemia (SNH): a population based surveillance study.
SJ Oddie et al ADC link - Pulse oximetry as a screening test for congenital heart defects in newborn infants: the PulseOx test accuracy study. AK Ewer et al ADC link
- Increased 36 week survival with high oxygen saturation target in extremely
preterm infants.
B Stenson et al ADC link
Session 3: Chair - Professor Kate Costeloe
17.00 The Tizard Lecture: Professor Alan H. Jobe, Cincinnati, USA
Who are these miracle babies?
18.00 Welcome Reception: Exhibition Hall, Harrogate International Centre
Thursday 16th June 2011
08.00 Registration
Session 4: Obesity. Chairs – Dr Helen Budge & Dr Margaret Ramsay
08.30 Professor Lucilla Poston, London, UK
Maternal and fetal outcomes and interventions in pregnancy
09.10 Dr Ken Ong, Cambridge, UK
Short and long term outcomes of infants of obese mothers
09.50 Neonatal
Society Young Investigator, 2011: Dr Ela Chakkarapani, Bristol, UK
'Cool Xenon': Effects on neuroprotection and
haemodynamics in post-asphyxial encephalopathy
10.20 Coffee and Exhibition
Session 5: Chairs – Dr Richard Thwaites & Professor Donald Peebles
10.50 Professor Colin Morley, Cambridge, UK
Risk and benefits of post natal steroids
11.20 Free papers:
- Xenon offers stable hemodynamics after global hypoxic-ischemia in newborn
pigs.
E Chakkarapani et al ADC link - Improved neuroprotection with melatonin- augmented hypothermia vs hypothermia alone in a perinatal asphyxia model. NJ Robertson et al ADC link
- Functional analysis of the antioxidant paraoxonase-3 in lung epithelial cells by RNA interference. G Belteki et al ADC link
- Alterations in postnatal growth and metabolism following prenatal treatment of intrauterine growth restriction with AD.VEGF gene therapy in the sheep. DJ Carr et al ADC link
12.20 Lunch, Poster Viewing and Exhibition
LUNCHTIME SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM
PLACENTAL BIOMARKERS AND THE CLINICAL MANAGEMENT OF PRE-ECLAMPSIA
Sponsored by Alere
Chair: Professor Christopher W. Redman, Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
12.30 Professor Christopher W. Redman, Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics, John
Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Current definition of pre-eclampsia – limitations and uncertainty
12.45 Dr Lucy Chappell, Senior Lecturer in Maternal and Fetal Medicine,
King’s College Hospital, London, UK
Maternal and fetal complications of pre-eclampsia – Improving prediction of
outcome and management
13.00 Professor Andrew Shennan, Professor of Obstetrics, King’s College
Hospital, London, UK
Clinical evidence - Triage PlGF, an update on clinical studies Professor Andrew
Shennan Professor of Obstetrics, King’s College Hospital, London, UK
13.15 Discussion
Session 6: Chairs – Miss Denise Evans & Dr Bryan Gill
13.40 Professor Andrew R Wilkinson, Oxford, UK
Decision making at the beginning and end of life in the newborn
14.10 Free papers:
- A population-based cohort study of gestational age and cognitive ability in
early childhood.
G Poulsen et al ADC link - Understanding socioeconomic inequalities in outcome of pregnancy and neonatal mortality associated with congenital anomalies. ES Draper et al ADC link
- UK neonatal mortality rates 2008: effect of using European gestation and birthweight cut-offs. C Amaral et al ADC link
- Barriers and facilitators for breastfeeding very preterm infants: management of mother’s milk in neonatal units in England, France and Italy. M Bonet et al ADC link
15.10 Tea and Exhibition
Session 7: Asphyxia and HIE. Chairs – Dr Amanda Ogilvy Stuart & Miss Tina Pollard
15.40 Professor Henrik E. Hagberg, London, UK
Pathophysiology of fetal and neonatal brain injury
16.20 Professor A David Edwards, London, UK
Neuroprotection - what can we do now and what is on the horizon
19.30 Conference Reception and Dinner Majestic Hotel, Harrogate
Friday 17th June 2009
08.00 Registration
Session 8: Chairs – Dr Anoo Jain & Dr Julian Eason
09.00 Free papers:
- Long term impact of poor birth condition on social and economic outcomes in early adulthood DE Odd et al ADC link
- Systemic effects of whole-body cooling to 35, 33 and 30 deg c in a piglet model of perinatal asphxyia M Chandrasekaran et al ADC link
- Magnetic resonance biomarkers of hypothermic rescue neuroprotection following neonatal encephalopathy in a South Indian neonatal unit S Thayyil et al ADC link
- Viral contributions to perinatal, neonatal and infant deaths over 24 years in the North of England J Berrington et al ADC link
10.00 Professor David Dunger, University of Cambridge, UK
Role of insulin for very pre term babies
10.30 Coffee and registration
Session 9: Chairs – Mr Richard Stewart & Dr Helen Budge
11.00 Professor David Archard, Lancaster, UK
Ethics regarding antenatal imaging
11.30 Mr Anthony Lander, Birmingham, UK
Surgical view of antenatal imaging
12.00 Families, Nottingham, UK
Our perspectives
12.15 Discussion
12.30 Lunch and Exhibition
Session 10: Platform posters. Chairs – Dr Alan Fenton & Dr Tracey Johnston
13.30 E Kidney et al
Does the level of evidence underpinning NICE recommendations influence adoption
into Trust maternity guidelines?
ADC link
13.35 V Gurung et al
Management and complications of 343 women with obstetric cholestasis in the
United Kingdom in 2009-2010
ADC link
13.40 NL Hezelgrave et al
Can fetal fibronectin testing and cervical length measurement direct appropriate
prophylactic steroid use in high-risk, asymptomatic women?
ADC link
13.45 KCW Goss et al
Rapid analysis of surfactant phosphatidylcholine synthesis in preterm infants
utilising the incorporation of a novel stable isotope: a pilot study
ADC link
13.50 ND Embleton et
al
Quality of life in children and adults with congenital gastro-intestinal
anomalies: a systematic review
ADC link
13.55 P Chisholm et al
Growth attainment in extremely preterm children- has it
changed over time? The EPICure 2 study
ADC link
14.00 Session Break
Session 11: Organisation of Care. Chairs – Professor Jane Sandall & Dr Katie Gallagher
14.10 Dr Jenny Kurinczuk, Oxford, UK
Interventions to deal with inequalities in reproductive health
14.40 Dr Peter Lachman, London, UK
Improving safety in maternal and perinatal care
15.10 Professor Julie Jomeen, Hull, UK
The paradox of choice in maternity care
Session 12: Hot Topics Free Papers Plenary Session. Chair – Professor Kate Costeloe
15.40 ME O’Callaghan et al
The Australian Cerebral Palsy Research Study – epidemiological and genetic
associations with cerebral palsy
ADC link
15.55 BR Kelly et al
Antenatal steroids: a caveat to the applause? Long term impact of antenatal
glucocorticoid exposure on aortic structure and function: a 20 year prospective
follow up study of premature infants
ADC link
16.10 T Moore et al
The EPICure studies: better survival, better outcomes?
ADC link
16.25 Presentation of Prizes and closing remarks
16.30 Close of meeting
