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K G Belani, I J Gilmour. 1980. Maximum inspiratory force.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7418430/
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BACKGROUND: The clinical risk index for babies (CRIB) is a score given to extremely small prematures as a tool for expressing initial sickness. It was developed in order to compare results among different neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). MATERIAL AND METHODS: The CRIB score was determined for prematures with birth weight < or = 1,000 g born at the Central Hospital in Akershus during the 1995-99 period. The results are measured as the survival rate until discharge. RESULTS: 45 babies where treated at our NICU during this five-year period. Median gestation age was 27 weeks (range: 23-32 weeks), median birth weight was 875 g (range: 475-1,000 g), median CRIB was 4 (range: 1-16). The survival rate until discharge was 89%. To validate the CRIB score as a predictor for hospital mortality, a receiver-operating curve (ROC) was constructed. The area under the ROC curve was 0.93. INTERPRETATION: CRIB proved to be a good predictor for hospital mortality and seems a useful indicator for initial sickness.
Radiology in the evaluation of congenital heart disease has changed over the years but still has an important role to play. Although we can rarely make the definitive diagnosis of the intracardiac abnormalities, we can direct the clinicians' attention when cardiac disease is unsuspected and we can assist in the evaluation of complications of the disease or its treatment.
The goal of the present study was to prospectively assess the plasma selenium (Se) concentrations of term and preterm infants during the first year of life in relation to gestational age and nutrition. Blood specimens were collected from orally formula-fed preterm infants (gestational age < 32 weeks, birth weight < 1500 g): 1.) in hospital and 2.) corrected for gestational age parallel to healthy term breast and formula-fed infants at the ages of 1, 4 and 12 months. All infants were fed according to a standardized nutritional concept, solids and follow-up formula were introduced at the age of 4 months. Plasma selenium in preterm infants in hospital was 11.7 (6.5-20.8) microg/l and 11.6 (8.8-16.7) microg/l at 4 weeks corrected for gestational age. At the age of 4 months plasma selenium was still significantly lower than in the other groups: Preterm infants: 17.1 (10.4-30.5) microg/l; formula-fed term infants: 31.3 (24.3-47.5) microg/l; breast-fed term infants: 45.6 (27.1-65.1) microg/l). The levels of breast-fed infants were significantly higher than those of both formula-fed groups up until the introduction of solids. Preterm infants had significantly low plasma selenium levels up until a postnatal age of at least 6 months. The levels were lower than those of term infants fed an identical unsupplemented infant formula during the first 4 months of life. These data support routine monitoring in hospital and selenium supplementation of preterm infants, preferably in hospital before discharge.