Postnatal glucocorticoids in preterm neonates: use in French neonatal centres in 2006

Postnatal steroids in extremely low birth weight infants: betamethasone or hydrocortisone?

“…Weaning from the ventilator is a crucial step in the care of ELBW infants, and some clinicians have started to use HC as an alternative to DXM or BTM for two main reasons: significant negative long‐term side effects of DXM and BTM have been extensively reported and retrospective cohort studies seem to indicate that HC is effective in reducing BPD without causing serious long‐term adverse effects . In our country, the number of NICUs using HC increased between 1999 and 2006, and this number has continued to increase in the past few years . The analysis of data from two sequential epochs is also a limitation, as comparing data from different historical epochs introduces uncertainty.…”

Postnatal steroids in extremely low birth weight infants: betamethasone or hydrocortisone?

“…Weaning from the ventilator is a crucial step in the care of ELBW infants, and some clinicians have started to use HC as an alternative to DXM or BTM for two main reasons: significant negative long‐term side effects of DXM and BTM have been extensively reported and retrospective cohort studies seem to indicate that HC is effective in reducing BPD without causing serious long‐term adverse effects . In our country, the number of NICUs using HC increased between 1999 and 2006, and this number has continued to increase in the past few years . The analysis of data from two sequential epochs is also a limitation, as comparing data from different historical epochs introduces uncertainty.…”

Postnatal steroids in extremely low birth weight infants: betamethasone or hydrocortisone?

“…Weaning from the ventilator is a crucial step in the care of ELBW infants, and some clinicians have started to use HC as an alternative to DXM or BTM for two main reasons: significant negative long‐term side effects of DXM and BTM have been extensively reported and retrospective cohort studies seem to indicate that HC is effective in reducing BPD without causing serious long‐term adverse effects . In our country, the number of NICUs using HC increased between 1999 and 2006, and this number has continued to increase in the past few years . The analysis of data from two sequential epochs is also a limitation, as comparing data from different historical epochs introduces uncertainty.…”

Postnatal steroids in extremely low birth weight infants: betamethasone or hydrocortisone?

“…Weaning from the ventilator is a crucial step in the care of ELBW infants, and some clinicians have started to use HC as an alternative to DXM or BTM for two main reasons: significant negative long‐term side effects of DXM and BTM have been extensively reported and retrospective cohort studies seem to indicate that HC is effective in reducing BPD without causing serious long‐term adverse effects . In our country, the number of NICUs using HC increased between 1999 and 2006, and this number has continued to increase in the past few years . The analysis of data from two sequential epochs is also a limitation, as comparing data from different historical epochs introduces uncertainty.…”