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Characteristics and outcomes of neonatal SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK: a prospective national cohort study using active surveillance (2020)
Journal Article
Gale, C., Quigley, M. A., Placzek, A., Knight, M., Ladhani, S., Draper, E. S., …Kurinczuk, J. J. (2021). Characteristics and outcomes of neonatal SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK: a prospective national cohort study using active surveillance. Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, 5(2), 113-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642%2820%2930342-4

Background: Babies differ from older children with regard to their exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, data describing the effect of SARS-CoV-2 in this group are scarce, and guidance is variable. We aime... Read More about Characteristics and outcomes of neonatal SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK: a prospective national cohort study using active surveillance.

Hospital-Acquired Viral Respiratory Tract Infections in the Neonatal Unit: A Comparison with Other Inpatient Groups (2020)
Journal Article
Taylor, C., Tan, S., McClaughry, R., & Sharkey, D. (2020). Hospital-Acquired Viral Respiratory Tract Infections in the Neonatal Unit: A Comparison with Other Inpatient Groups. Neonatology, 117(4), 513–516. https://doi.org/10.1159/000506427

Background: Hospital-acquired viral respiratory tract infections (VRTIs) cause significant morbidity and mortality in neonatal patients. This includes escalation of respiratory support, increased length of hospital stay, and need for home oxygen, as... Read More about Hospital-Acquired Viral Respiratory Tract Infections in the Neonatal Unit: A Comparison with Other Inpatient Groups.

Clinical Scene Segmentation with Tiny Datasets (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, T. J., Sharkey, D., Crowe, J., & Valstar, M. (2019). Clinical Scene Segmentation with Tiny Datasets. In 2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW) (1637-1645). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCVW.2019.00203

Many clinical procedures could benefit from automatic scene segmentation and subsequent action recognition. Using Convolutional Neural Networks to semantically segment meaningful parts of an image or video is still an unsolved problem. This becomes e... Read More about Clinical Scene Segmentation with Tiny Datasets.

Restricted visiting reduces nosocomial viral respiratory tract infections in high-risk neonates (2018)
Journal Article
Szatkowski, L., McClaughry, R., Clarkson, M., & Sharkey, D. (2019). Restricted visiting reduces nosocomial viral respiratory tract infections in high-risk neonates. European Respiratory Journal, 53(3), Article 1801874. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01874-2018

Restricting visitors on the neonatal intensive care unit to parents only during a worldwide pandemic resulted in a 39% reduction in nosocomial viral respiratory tract infections in neonatal patients. These findings need validating in a prospective tr... Read More about Restricted visiting reduces nosocomial viral respiratory tract infections in high-risk neonates.

Early life incidence of gastrointestinal and respiratory infections in children with gastroschisis: a cohort study (2018)
Journal Article
Bannister, J., Szatkowski, L., Sharkey, D., Tan, S., Fiaschi, L., & Ban, L. (2018). Early life incidence of gastrointestinal and respiratory infections in children with gastroschisis: a cohort study. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, 67(5), 580–585. https://doi.org/10.1097/MPG.0000000000002045

Objectives: Survival in infants with gastroschisis is increasing although little is known about early childhood morbidity. In the context of a hypothesised link between the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and immune function, this study explores rates of... Read More about Early life incidence of gastrointestinal and respiratory infections in children with gastroschisis: a cohort study.

Variation in visiting and isolation policies in neonatal units: a UK nationwide survey (2017)
Journal Article
Tan, S., Clarkson, M., & Sharkey, D. (in press). Variation in visiting and isolation policies in neonatal units: a UK nationwide survey. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, https://doi.org/10.1097/INF.0000000000001820

Global pandemics, such as H1N1, are a major risk for neonatal patients. We surveyed UK tertiary and district neonatal units about visiting and infection control policies relating to viral respiratory infections. There was marked variation with visiti... Read More about Variation in visiting and isolation policies in neonatal units: a UK nationwide survey.

Outcomes of nosocomial viral respiratory infections in high-risk neonates (2016)
Journal Article
Zinna, S., Lakshmanan, A., Tan, S., McClaughry, R., Clarkson, M., Soo, S., …Sharkey, D. (2016). Outcomes of nosocomial viral respiratory infections in high-risk neonates. Pediatrics, 138(5), Article e20161675. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2016-1675

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Neonatal respiratory disease, particularly bronchopulmonary dysplasia, remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in newborn infants. Recent evidence suggests nosocomially acquired viral respiratory tract... Read More about Outcomes of nosocomial viral respiratory infections in high-risk neonates.

An automated quasi-continuous capillary refill timing device (2015)
Journal Article
Blaxter, L., Morris, D. E., Crowe, J. A., Henry, C., Hill, S. J., Sharkey, D., …Hayes-Gill, B. R. (in press). An automated quasi-continuous capillary refill timing device. Physiological Measurement, 37(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/0967-3334/37/1/83

Capillary refill time (CRT) is a simple means of cardiovascular assessment which is widely used in clinical care. Currently, CRT is measured through manual assessment of the time taken for skin tone to return to normal colour following blanching of t... Read More about An automated quasi-continuous capillary refill timing device.