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Section on Perinatal Pediatrics
Neonatal/Perinatal Policy Statements

The following policy statements were authored or coauthored by the Committee on Fetus & Newborn (COFN). To access the full text, click on the corresponding link.

 

Policy Title: Apnea, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and Home Monitoring
Date: PEDIATRICS April, 2003
Authoring Committees: Guidance for the Children in Rendering Pediatric Care and the Committee on
Fetus & Newborn
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Policy Title: Perinatal Care at the Threshold of Viability
Date: PEDIATRICS November, 2003
Authoring Committees: Guidance for the Children in Rendering Pediatric Care and the Committee on Fetus & Newborn
Full text

Policy Title: Postnatal Corticosteroids to Treat or Prevent Chronic Lung Disease in Preterm Infants
Date: PEDIATRICS February 2002
Authoring Committee: Committee on Fetus & Newborn
Full text

Policy Title: Use of Inhaled Nitric Oxide
Date: PEDIATRICS August, 2000 (Reaffirmed May 2003)
Authoring Committee: Committee on Fetus & Newborn
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Policy Title: Prevention and Management of Pain and Stress in the Neonate
Date: PEDIATRICS February 2000 (Under Review)
Authoring Committees: Committee on fetus & Newborn, Committee on Drugs, Section on Anesthesiology, and the Section on Surgery
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Policy Title: Hospital Discharge of the High-Risk Neonate - Proposed Guidelines
Date:PEDIATRICS August 1998 (Reaffirmed May 2001)
Authoring Committee: Committee on Fetus & Newborn
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Policy Title: Role of the Primary Care Pediatrician in the Management of High-Risk Newborn Infants
Date: PEDIATRICS October 1996 (Under Review)
Authoring Committees: Committee on Practice & Ambulatory Medicine and the Committee on Fetus & Newborn
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Policy Title: Use and Abuse of the APGAR Score
Date: PEDIATRICS July 1996 (Under Review)
Authoring Committee: Committee on Fetus & Newborn
Full text

Policy Title: Safe Transportation of Premature and Low Birth Weight Infants
Date: PEDIATRICS May 1996 (Under Review)
Authoring Committees: Committee on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention and the Committee on Fetus & Newborn
Full text pdf file only

Policy Title: Hospital Stay for Healthy Term Newborns
Date: PEDIATRICS 1996 (Under Review)
Authoring Committee: Committee on Fetus & Newborn
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Policy Title: The Initiation of Withdrawal of Treatment for High-Risk Newborns
Date: PEDIATRIC August 1995
Authoring Committee: Committee on Fetus & Newborn
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Policy Title: Controversies Concerning Vitamin K and the Newborn
Date: PEDIATRICS May 1993 (Revised July 2002)
Authoring Committee: Vitamin K Ad Hoc Task Force
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Policy Title: Advanced Practice in Neonatal Nursing
Date: PEDIATRICS July 1992 (Revised June 2003)
Authoring Committee: Committee on Fetus & Newborn
Full text

Policy Title: Surfactant Replacement Therapy for Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Date: PEDIATRICS June 1991 (Under Review)
Authoring Committee: Committee on Fetus & Newborn
Full text

 

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