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Peter Brocklehurst
Researcher at University of Birmingham
Publications - 361
Citations - 23468
Peter Brocklehurst is an academic researcher from University of Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pregnancy & Population. The author has an hindex of 76, co-authored 330 publications receiving 20042 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Brocklehurst include University of Oxford & Children's Hospital at Westmead.
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Saving Lives, Improving Mothers' Care: Lessons learned to inform future maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2009-2012
Marian Knight,Sara Kenyon,Peter Brocklehurst,James P Neilson,Judy Shakespeare,Jennifer J Kurinczuk +5 more
TL;DR: A welcome decrease in the overall rate of maternal death across the United Kingdom is shown, and a compelling message for the future has to be the importance of continuing the programme of vaccination against influenza in pregnancy in the UK and Ireland, working to maximise uptake and hence to ensure the authors prevent future influenza-related maternal deaths.
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Antibiotics for treating bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy
TL;DR: Antibiotic therapy was shown to be effective at eradicating bacterial vaginosis during pregnancy, and treatment before 20 weeks' gestation did not reduce the risk of PTB less than 37 weeks, however these represent relatively small differences in the clinical setting.
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Stunted microbiota and opportunistic pathogen colonization in caesarean-section birth
Yan Shao,Samuel C. Forster,Samuel C. Forster,Samuel C. Forster,Evdokia Tsaliki,Kevin Vervier,Angela Strang,Nandi Simpson,Nitin Kumar,Mark D. Stares,Alison Rodger,Peter Brocklehurst,Nigel Field,Trevor D. Lawley +13 more
TL;DR: The disrupted transmission of maternal Bacteroides strains, and high-level colonization by opportunistic pathogens associated with the hospital environment (including Enterococcus, Enterobacter and Klebsiella species), in babies delivered by caesarean section are reported.
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Effects of Hypothermia for Perinatal Asphyxia on Childhood Outcomes
Denis Azzopardi,Brenda Strohm,Neil Marlow,Peter Brocklehurst,Aniko Deierl,Oya Eddama,Julia Goodwin,Henry L. Halliday,Edmund Juszczak,Olga Kapellou,Malcolm I. Levene,Louise Linsell,Omar Omar,Marianne Thoresen,Nora Tusor,Andrew Whitelaw,A. David Edwards +16 more
TL;DR: Moderate hypothermia after perinatal asphyxia resulted in improved neurocognitive outcomes in middle childhood.
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Assessment of brain tissue injury after moderate hypothermia in neonates with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy: a nested substudy of a randomised controlled trial
Mary A. Rutherford,Luca A. Ramenghi,A. David Edwards,Peter Brocklehurst,Henry L. Halliday,Malcolm I. Levene,Brenda Strohm,Marianne Thoresen,Andrew Whitelaw,Denis Azzopardi +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed cerebral lesions on MRI scans of infants who participated in the Total Body Hypothermia for Neonatal Encephalopathy (TOBY) trial.