- Placental weight and PF ratio Clinical implications for neonatologists

Placental weight and 

Placental Fetal weight ratio 

Clinical implications for neonatologists

 🔹 Why neonatologists still care (even if baby looks fine) 

🔹What is “normal”, “low”, and “high”? 

🔹Golden rules for accurate using of this ratio 

🔹Placenta weight by gestational age 

🔹Which to use ? 

🔹Why PW-for-GA curves are better than the ratio alone? 

🔹REAL NICU CASE EXAMPLES 

🔹Summary

- Understanding Bronchial Asthma Triggers.

 Understanding Bronchial Asthma Triggers.

1. Allergens: 

• Allergen exposures in sensitized individuals can initiate airways inflammation and hypersensitivity to other irritant exposures, and are strongly linked to disease severity and persistence. 
• Consequently, eliminating the offending allergen(s) can lead to resolution of asthma symptoms and can sometimes cure asthma.

- Newborn with Focal colonic fits.

Newborn aged 3 days delivered by Caesarean section with history of perinatal asphyxia and prolonged resuscitation and need intubation in delivery room admitted into our NICU on mechanical ventilator and show right upper limb colonic fits.

- Infant girl with whooping cough (Video)

Infant girl with whooping cough

Mother holding infant girl in Intensive Care Unit. The baby has pertussis (whooping cough) and is coughing severely.

- Baby with viral croup (video).

2 years old female presenting with barking cough, stridor

The child have:

• stridor at rest 
• Subcostal and suprasternal retraction 

As classified by Westley score  minimally she has Moderate croup

- How to use an accuhaler?

How to use an accuhaler for bronchial asthma

- Shorter Antibiotic Treatment for Otitis Media!

Shorter Antibiotic Treatment for Otitis Media!