The programme below provides the running order for the 2018 Autumn Meeting.
Autumn Meeting, 16th November 2018
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
09.30 Coffee
Session 1: Chair – Dr Chris Gale, Committee member
09.30. D Markati, Imperial College, London
Pre-emptive opioid sedation during therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal encephalopathy: a national survey
09.45. H Hunt, University of Exeter
‘They’ve walked the walk’: a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence for parent-to parent support for parents of babies in neonatal care
10.00. D Sethi, University of East Anglia
Reduced chlorhexidine susceptibility in NICU-acquired versus externally acquired coagulase-negative staphylococci isolates
10.15. S Dabbour, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals
Plasma gentamicin concentrations and exposure in neonates cooled for suspected hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy and association with later permanent childhood hearing impairment: a case-control study
10.30. F Moultrie, University of Oxford
Procedural pain in premature infants (POPPI): a blinded randomized placebo-controlled trial of oral morphine
10.45. Tea / coffee
Session 2: Chair – Prof James Boardman, General Secretary
11.15. C Robertson, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals
Marked reduction in necrotising enterocolitis since introducing dual-strain probiotics for high-risk neonates: a single-centre tertiary-level NICU’s experience
11.30. Keynote Lecture: Prof. Vincent Reid, Professor of Psychology, University of Lancaster
Can we use postnatal experimental approaches to understand the foetus?
12.30. Annual General Meeting for Members of the Neonatal Society
13.30 Lunch break
Session 3: Chair – Prof Andrew Ewer, Meetings Secretary
14.45. N Liow, Imperial College London
Pre-emptive morphine sedation during hypothermic neuroprotection for neonatal encephalopathy is associated with adverse outcomes: an uncontrolled cohort study
15.00. V Oliveira Imperial College London
Early postnatal trajectory of heart rate variability after perinatal asphyxia
15.15. C Durrant, University College London
Developmental trajectories of children born at less than 30 weeks gestation on the Bayley-III scales
15.30. P Montaldo. Imperial College London
Transcriptomic signatures of adverse outcomes after neonatal encephalopathy
15.45. Afternoon Tea / Coffee
Session 4: Chair – Professor Howard Clark, President
16.15. K Hunt King’s College London
Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist versus proportional assist ventilation in prematurely born infants with evolving brochopulmonary dysplasia
16.30. L Burgess, University of Liverpool
Parenteral nutrition arginine supplementation in very preterm infants and early immune system development
16.45. T Austin, University of Cambridge.
Whole genome sequence analysis for rapid diagnosis of severely ill children in intensive care
17.00. Prize for best presentation by a trainee
17.05. The Widdowson Lecture. Prof Hugo Lagercrantz, Senior Professor Karolinska Institute, Sweden, Editor-in-Chief, Acta Paediatrica
The Emergence of Consciousness
18.05 Drinks and Close of Meeting