• The impact of intrapartum fetal death and other serious adverse perinatal events on healthcare professionals and the maternity services 

  McNamara, Karen (University College Cork, 2019)

  Obstetrics and midwifery are high risk specialties. Sometimes and even despite the provision of the best medical care possible, serious adverse events do occur. While patients and service users of the Irish maternity ...
• High-flow nasal cannulae, bronchopulmonary dysplasia and retinopathy of prematurity 

  Healy, L. I.; Corcoran, Paul; Murphy, B. P. (Irish Medical Association, 2019-09)

  Aims: To determine if HFNC use was associated with changes in incidence of BPD and ROP. Methods: This retrospective study examined premature infants (<30 weeks GA or <1500g) in a tertiary neonatal unit from 2010-2016. ...
• The association between caesarean section and cognitive ability in childhood 

  Hanrahan, Michael; McCarthy, Fergus P.; O'Keeffe, Gerard W.; Khashan, Ali S. (Springer, 2019-10-22)

  Purpose: Global rates of caesarean section (CS) rates have increased rapidly in recent years. This is a growing public health concern as it has been proposed that CS may impact cognitive outcomes in childhood. However, the ...
• Women's experiences of their maternity care: A principle- based concept analysis 

  Beecher, Claire; Devane, Declan; White, Mark; Greene, Richard; Dowling, Maura (Elsevier, 2019-11-18)

  Background: Despite many countries employing the use of national and large scale regional surveys to explore women’s experiences of their maternity care, with the results informing national maternity policy and practice, ...
• Investigating the role of early low-dose aspirin in diabetes: A phase III multicentre double-blinded placebo-controlled randomised trial of aspirin therapy initiated in the first trimester of diabetes pregnancy 

  Finnegan, Catherine; Dicker, Patrick; Fernandez, Elena; Tully, Elizabeth; Higgins, Mary; Daly, Sean; Riordan, Mairead O’; Dunne, Fidelma; Gaffney, Geraldine; Slevin, John; Ciprike, Vinete; Breathnach, Fionnuala (Elsevier Inc, 2019-10-15)

  Background: Preeclampsia, preterm birth and low birth weight represent key contributing factors to perinatal morbidity and mortality. Pregnancies complicated by type 1 and type 2 diabetes are at increased risk of these ...

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