Daniel Virella

TL;DR: It is concluded that the Viking Speech Scale is a reliable tool to describe the speech performance of children with cerebral palsy, which can be applied through direct observation of children or through case note review.

TL;DR: Almost half of the patients in Portuguese ICUs are at high nutritional risk, and NUTRIC score was strongly associated with main clinical outcomes, including mortality from all causes at 28 days after admission.

TL;DR: Early assigned parenteral intake of Ca 75 mg ·kg−1 · day−1 and P 44 mg · kg−1· day −1 significantly contributed to preventing short-term bone strength decline in preterm infants.

TL;DR: A practical approach for nutritional assessment in preterm infants under intensive care, based on anthropometric measurements and commonly used biochemical markers, is suggested, which could be proxies of body composition but need validation.

TL;DR: The use of palivizumab might have contributed to arresting the outbreak of RSV infection in the NICU, suggesting that it could be an additional resource in the control of severe nosocomial RSV outbreaks.