TY - JOUR T1 - Perspective from the chairs of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine Framework for Practice working group on neonatal hypoglycaemia JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - 27 LP - 28 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2017-314137 VL - 104 IS - 1 AU - James P Boardman AU - Janette Westman Y1 - 2019/02/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/104/1/27.abstract N2 - The purpose of the Framework for Practice (FfP) is to address variations in practice in identification, management and neonatal unit admission thresholds of term infants with hypoglycaemia and to promote safer practices that avoid unnecessary separation of mother and baby.1 ­Two issues raise particular controversy: Operational threshold for intervention in infants born at term without abnormal clinical signs. The FfP recommends that clinicians should intervene to raise blood glucose (BG) concentration in infants with risk factors for impaired metabolic adaption but without abnormal clinical signs if BG concentration is <2.0 mmol/L on two occasions. This operational threshold was proposed by expert consensus in 2000,2 and no evidence-based modifications to it have been proposed despite review of the literature on several occasions since.3–6 The threshold is recommended in standard texts and is already used in some UK centres.Following publication of the FfP, the Children with Hypoglycemia and Their Later … ER -