O‘Hare, B. A., Nakakeeto, M., Southall, D. P.
Aims and Objectives: To determine if a team dedicated to basic neonatal resuscitation in the delivery ward of a teaching hospital would impact the outcome of neonates delivered in Kampala, Uganda....
O'Hare, B. A., Nakakeeto, M., Southall, D. P.
Aims and Objectives: To determine if a team dedicated to basic neonatal resuscitation in the delivery ward of a teaching hospital would impact the outcome of neonates delivered in Kampala, Uganda....
O‘Hare, B. A., Nakakeeto, M., Southall, D. P.
Aims and Objectives: To determine if a team dedicated to basic neonatal resuscitation in the delivery ward of a teaching hospital would impact the outcome of neonates delivered in Kampala, Uganda....
Sinus node arrest and sino-atrial block (1984)
Current epidemiological data suggest that sinus node dysfunction is a relatively uncommon condition in the pilot age group. Symptomatic pauses of any mechanism suggest disqualification from flying...
Parkins, K J, Poets, C F, O’Brien, L M, Stebbens, V A, Southall, D P
Objective: To assess the response of healthy infants to airway hypoxia (15% oxygen in nitrogen).
Personal child health record and advice booklet programme in Tuzla, Bosnia Herzegovina.
McMaster, P, McMaster, H J, Southall, D P
Personal child health records, held by the parents, have potential advantages in times of civil disorder. Via health and community workers, 939 booklets (incorporating health records and health...
Apnoeic episodes induced by smothering: two cases identified by covert video surveillance.
Southall, D P, Stebbens, V A, Rees, S V, Lang, M H, Warner, J O, Shinebourne, E A
Recurrent cyanotic episodes associated on some occasions with loss of consciousness due to cerebral hypoxia were investigated by long term tape recordings of breathing activity, oxygen saturation,...
Wilson, A J, Stevens, V, Franks, C I, Alexander, J, Southall, D P
From a prospective study in which 24 hour recordings of the electrocardiogram and respiratory activity (abdominal wall movement) were made on a population of full term infants, 22 recordings were...
Cardiac conduction disorders in six infants with "near-miss" sudden infant deaths.
Keeton, B R, Southall, E, Rutter, N, Anderson, R H, Shinebourne, E A, Southall, D P
Cardiac conduction disorders caused sudden serious illnesses in six infants that might have been fatal if diagnosis and treatment had been delayed. These cases provide circumstantial evidence to...
Study of cardiac arrhythmias and other forms of conduction abnormality in newborn infants.
Southall, D P, Orrell, M J, Talbot, J F, Brinton, R J, Vulliamy, D G, Johnson, A M, ...
In an unselected population of 2030 newborn infants studied by electrocardiography (ECG) between April 1975 and April 1977, 35 were found to have arrhythmias or other cardiac conduction...
Samuels, M P, Poets, C F, Noyes, J P, Hartmann, H, Hewertson, J, Southall, D P
OBJECTIVE--To determine the mechanisms and thereby appropriate management for apparent life threatening events treated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation in infants and young children....
Invasive procedures in children receiving intensive care.
Southall, D P, Cronin, B C, Hartmann, H, Harrison-Sewell, C, Samuels, M P
A new look at the neonatal electrocardiogram.
Southall, D P, Vulliamy, D G, Davies, M J, Anderson, R H, Shinebourne, E A, Johnson, A M
Among 818 newborn babies whose electrocardiograms (ECGs) were recorded between April 1975 and April 1976 were 57 babies with recordings that fell outside the accepted normal range. Preliminary...
Briggs, R S, Brown, P M, Crabb, M E, Cox, T J, Ead, H W, Hawkes, R A, ...
Two ambulances from the existing fleet in Brighton and one in Hove are equipped with portable defibrillator-oscilloscope units. Selected attendants have been trained not only to defibrillate patients...
Parkins, K J, Poets, C F, O’Brien, L M, Stebbens, V A, Southall, D P
Objective: To assess the response of healthy infants to airway hypoxia (15% oxygen in nitrogen).
Apnoeic episodes induced by smothering: two cases identified by covert video surveillance.
Southall, D P, Stebbens, V A, Rees, S V, Lang, M H, Warner, J O, Shinebourne, E A
Recurrent cyanotic episodes associated on some occasions with loss of consciousness due to cerebral hypoxia were investigated by long term tape recordings of breathing activity, oxygen saturation,...
Personal child health record and advice booklet programme in Tuzla, Bosnia Herzegovina.
McMaster, P, McMaster, H J, Southall, D P
Personal child health records, held by the parents, have potential advantages in times of civil disorder. Via health and community workers, 939 booklets (incorporating health records and health...
Wilson, A J, Stevens, V, Franks, C I, Alexander, J, Southall, D P
From a prospective study in which 24 hour recordings of the electrocardiogram and respiratory activity (abdominal wall movement) were made on a population of full term infants, 22 recordings were...
Cardiac conduction disorders in six infants with "near-miss" sudden infant deaths.
Keeton, B R, Southall, E, Rutter, N, Anderson, R H, Shinebourne, E A, Southall, D P
Cardiac conduction disorders caused sudden serious illnesses in six infants that might have been fatal if diagnosis and treatment had been delayed. These cases provide circumstantial evidence to...
Study of cardiac arrhythmias and other forms of conduction abnormality in newborn infants.
Southall, D P, Orrell, M J, Talbot, J F, Brinton, R J, Vulliamy, D G, Johnson, A M, ...
In an unselected population of 2030 newborn infants studied by electrocardiography (ECG) between April 1975 and April 1977, 35 were found to have arrhythmias or other cardiac conduction...
Samuels, M P, Poets, C F, Noyes, J P, Hartmann, H, Hewertson, J, Southall, D P
OBJECTIVE--To determine the mechanisms and thereby appropriate management for apparent life threatening events treated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation in infants and young children....
Invasive procedures in children receiving intensive care.
Southall, D P, Cronin, B C, Hartmann, H, Harrison-Sewell, C, Samuels, M P
A new look at the neonatal electrocardiogram.
Southall, D P, Vulliamy, D G, Davies, M J, Anderson, R H, Shinebourne, E A, Johnson, A M
Among 818 newborn babies whose electrocardiograms (ECGs) were recorded between April 1975 and April 1976 were 57 babies with recordings that fell outside the accepted normal range. Preliminary...
Briggs, R S, Brown, P M, Crabb, M E, Cox, T J, Ead, H W, Hawkes, R A, ...
Two ambulances from the existing fleet in Brighton and one in Hove are equipped with portable defibrillator-oscilloscope units. Selected attendants have been trained not only to defibrillate patients...
Negative extrathoracic pressure in treatment of respiratory failure in infants and young children.
Samuels, M. P., Southall, D. P.
OBJECTIVE--To assess the efficacy of a newly developed system for applying continuous or intermittent negative (subatmospheric) extrathoracic pressure in respiratory failure. DESIGN--Uncontrolled...
Study of cardiac rhythm in healthy newborn infants.
Southall, D P, Richards, J, Mitchell, P, Brown, D J, Johnston, P G, Shinebourne, E A
Twenty-four-hour electrocardiograms were recorded in the first 10 days of life on 134 healthy full-term infants with birthweights greater than 2.5 kg. The highest heart rate a minute, measured over...
Southall, D P, Johnston, F, Shinebourne, E A, Johnston, P G
Twenty-four hour electrocardiographic recordings were made on 104 randomly selected, healthy 7 to 11-year-old children. Ninety-two were technically adequate and suitable for analysis. The mean...
Normal relation between heart rate and cardiac repolarisation in sudden infant death syndrome.
OBJECTIVE--To determine whether there was a difference in the relation between heart rate and RT intervals in infants who later died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and controls. DESIGN--A...
Raine, J, Samuels, M P, Mok, Q, Shinebourne, E A, Southall, D P
OBJECTIVE--To investigate the feasibility of negative extrathoracic pressure ventilation as a respiratory support following phrenic nerve palsy after cardiac surgery. DESIGN--An uncontrolled pilot...
Some ethical issues surrounding covert video surveillance--a response.
In a recent article in this journal our unit was accused of a number of errors of judgment in applying covert video surveillance (CVS) to infants and children suspected of life-threatening abuse. The...
Negative extrathoracic pressure ventilation in central hypoventilation syndrome.
Hartmann, H, Jawad, M H, Noyes, J, Samuels, M P, Southall, D P
Nine patients with central hypoventilation syndrome (CHS) were treated with negative extrathoracic pressure ventilation (VNEP). Treatment with VNEP was started between 20 days and 57 months of age,...
Southall, D P, Arrowsmith, W A, Oakley, J R, McEnery, G, Anderson, R H, Shinebourne, E A
Two neonates with arrhythmias and the long QT syndrome are described. The arrhythmias were detected in utero and both infants were apparently well after birth. The first infant, although well, had a...
Southall, D P, Richards, Jean, Brown, D J, Johnston, P G B, De Swiet, M, Shinebourne, E A
A system for simultaneous 24-hour tape recording of ECG and respiration has been developed and used in the study of 4 groups of newborn infants. In 50 randomly selected, healthy term infants, the...
An explanation for failure of impedance apnoea alarm systems.
Southall, D P, Richards, J M, Lau, K C, Shinebourne, E A
24-hour recordings of the ECG and respiration, the latter from an impedance technique, have shown a phenomenon which could account for hitherto unexplained failures of impedance apnoea alarm systems....
Prospective study of fetal heart rate and rhythm patterns.
Southall, D P, Richards, J, Hardwick, R A, Shinebourne, E A, Gibbens, G L, Thelwall-Jones, H, ...
The fetal heart beat, detected by ultrasound, was recorded for five minutes from 934 antenatal women--266 at 30 to 35 weeks' gestation and 718 at 36 to 41 weeks. Episodes of bradycardia < 100/minute...
Cardiac arrhythmias misdiagnosed as epilepsy.
A mother and three children presenting with syncope induced by exercise and emotion were diagnosed as epileptic. They, and three symptom free children, showed frequent ventricular and...
QT interval measurements before sudden infant death syndrome.
Southall, D P, Arrowsmith, W A, Stebbens, V, Alexander, J R
Standard electrocardiogram recordings were performed on a total of 7254 newly born infants from two maternity hospitals. Fifteen recordings were obtained on 15 infants who subsequently suffered...
Southall, D P, Bignall, S, Stebbens, V A, Alexander, J R, Rivers, R P, Lissauer, T
Pulse oximeter (SaO2P) measurements were compared with direct arterial line oxygen saturation (SaO2) from co-oximeters in 92 instances in 43 patients, and with arterial line oxygen measurements...
Severe hypoxaemia in pertussis.
Southall, D P, Thomas, M G, Lambert, H P
Overnight tape recordings of breathing movements, airflow, and arterial oxygen saturation from six infants aged 3 weeks to 7 months, who had cyanotic episodes associated with pertussis, were compared...
Hyperventilation in the awake state: potentially treatable component of Rett syndrome.
Southall, D P, Kerr, A M, Tirosh, E, Amos, P, Lang, M H, Stephenson, J B
Hyperventilation, which occurs in some patients with severe mental handicap, is a prominent feature in the histories of most girls with Rett syndrome but its mechanism and effects have not been...
Sudden and unexpected death between 1 and 5 years.
Southall, D P, Stebbens, V, Shinebourne, E A
Of a population of 9856 children followed up from birth, 9251 of whom underwent 24 hour tape recordings of electrocardiograms and abdominal wall breathing movements during early infancy, five died...
Cardiorespiratory patterns in siblings of babies with sudden infant death syndrome.
Southall, D P, Alexander, J R, Stebbens, V A, Taylor, V G, Janczynski, R E
Clinical data and 24 hour tape recordings of electrocardiogram (ECG) and abdominal breathing movements were collected from 301 infants who had had a sibling who had suffered the sudden infant death...
Southall, D P, Samuels, M P, Talbert, D G
The pathophysiology of recurrent cyanotic episodes has been investigated in 51 infants and children. Episodes began at a median age of 7 weeks (range 1 day to 22 months, 39 at less than 4 months)....
Poets, C F, Stebbens, V A, Alexander, J R, Arrowsmith, W A, Salfield, S A, Southall, D P
Overnight 12 hour tape recordings of arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2, pulse oximeter in the beat to beat mode), breathing movements, and airflow were made on 66 preterm infants (median gestational...
Stebbens, V A, Poets, C F, Alexander, J R, Arrowsmith, W A, Southall, D P
Overnight 12 hour tape recordings were made of arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2, pulse oximeter in the beat to beat mode) and abdominal wall breathing movement on 67 healthy, full term infants...
Poets, C F, Samuels, M P, Noyes, J P, Jones, K A, Southall, D P
Twenty three patients (age range 0.5-40 months) with recurrent cyanotic episodes underwent physiological recordings, including transcutaneous oxygen tension (TcPO2) from a monitor modified for use at...
Sleep related upper airway obstruction in a cohort with Down's syndrome.
Stebbens, V A, Dennis, J, Samuels, M P, Croft, C B, Southall, D P
The prevalence of sleep related upper airway obstruction (UAO) was studied in a cohort of 34 children with Down's syndrome from a geographically defined area. Thirty two (94%) of the children,...
Fourteen cases of imposed upper airway obstruction.
Samuels, M P, McClaughlin, W, Jacobson, R R, Poets, C F, Southall, D P
Imposed upper airway obstruction was diagnosed as the cause of recurrent and severe cyanotic episodes in 14 patients. Episodes started between 0.8 and 33 months of age (median 1.4) and occurred over...
Sleep related upper airway obstruction and hypoxaemia in sickle cell disease.
Samuels, M P, Stebbens, V A, Davies, S C, Picton-Jones, E, Southall, D P
A cohort of 53 patients (age range 1.9-16.5 years) with sickle cell disease (49 homozygous SS and four S beta zero-thalassaemia) was studied for evidence of sleep related upper airway obstruction...