UoN Neonatology team publish 3 exciting papers

The 3 recent publications outline an exciting future for research and Neonatal Care

Professor Don Sharkey, the Clinical Director of SurePulse Medical Ltd. is a world-renowned thought leader in neonatal research. Professor Sharkey’s passion is the development of clinically-relevant new technology specifically designed around the needs of the newborn baby. The first paper from his team ‘The newborn delivery room of tomorrow: emerging and future technologies‘ was published in March 2022 in Paediatric Research. Read the research paper…

The authors concluded: “When introducing any new piece of equipment into a time-critical, acutely stressful Delivery Room (DR) resuscitation scenario, the benefits must be clear. Increasing monitoring modalities in the DR can result in information overload and affect performance. However, emerging technologies show significant promise for safety and the improvement of outcomes following neonatal stabilisation or resuscitation. The addition of technology to the DR will not only impact an individual infant’s care but also enhance the training of Healthcare Professionals and allow collaborative working across centres. We must now intensify our efforts to deliver new innovative technologies, as other specialties in medicine have done, to improve newborn DR care during the first golden minutes of life, aiming to minimise morbidities that can stay with infants for the rest of their lives.”

The second paper, published in April 2022 inSeminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine is entitled ‘Application and potential of artificial intelligence in neonatal medicine’ and assesses the opportunities (and caveats) of developing AI applications for newborn care.  Read the research paper…

The third paper ‘Feasibility of a Novel ECG Electrode Placement method in Newborn Infants’, published in ‘Neonatology‘ earlier in 2022 highlights outlines a new approach to ECG deployment in the Delivery Room – an innovation that is receiving very positive feedback from the neonatology communities in the UK and the US. Read the research paper…