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Very Low Birth Weight Outcomes and Admission Temperature: Does Hyperthermia Matter?

Children 2022, 9(11), 1706; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9111706
by Hannah Brophy, Gaik Min Tan and Charles William Yoxall *
Reviewer 1:
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Children 2022, 9(11), 1706; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9111706
Submission received: 3 October 2022 / Revised: 26 October 2022 / Accepted: 5 November 2022 / Published: 7 November 2022

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Sufficiently powered study with Birthweight < 1500 gms and upto 22 weeks.  A breakdown on demographics with percentage of infants < 1000 gms (the highest risk group) would be helpful. Its a retrospective study but relevant as we do see hyperthermia occurring after institution of thermoregulation in DR for VLBW and ELBW babies. Acknowledgement of in-utero environment and chorioamnionitis as causative factors for abnormal cranial US findings is important. It would be interesting to see the subset of babies with no h/o chorioamnionitis with hyperthermia and their subsequent outcome. 

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Reviewer 2 Report

The present paper reports the results of a very interesting study on the association between birth hyperthermia and clinical outcomes, namely an increased risk of major cranial ultrasound abnormalities.

The discussion is well written and informative. However, I believe that it ends a little too abruptly and that a conclusive paragraph may be needed.

Although the paper is mainly well written, there are still some typos and mistakes that need to be fixed (see for example line 76).

Overall, I consider the paper to be adequate for publication, provided that some minor revisions are applied.

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