Tag Archives: pulmonary hypertension

What should saturation targets be in established chronic lung disease with pulmonary hypertension?

This question has been puzzling me recently, as we are trying to evaluate our current approach, and whether it needs to be changed. My bias has been that oxygen is toxic, and we should only give the minimum needed to … Continue reading

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Diazoxide for hyperinsulinism? Not so fast

Infants with congential persistent hyperinsulinism have been treated for years with diazoxide, well before many of the genetic mutations underlying the condition were known (there are now at least 14 of them!). Diazoxide seems to be relatively well tolerated in … Continue reading

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NO, not diaphragmatic Hernias!

Many of you will know that I am responsible for the inhaled NO systematic review in the Cochrane database.  One part of that review examines the data for iNO use in infants with diaphragmatic hernia. Unfortunately there were only about … Continue reading

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