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Neurological assessment of the preterm infant
Author(s) -
Vries LS de
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1996.tb14149.x
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care medicine , medline , pediatrics , political science , law
Coinciding with improved overall management of the very preterm infant, more techniques have become available to assess the neurological well‐being of these high‐risk infants. An overview is given of the different techniques which are now used in many neonatal intensive care units, and their value in predicting neurodevelopmental outcome is discussed. Attention is mainly focused on cranial ultrasound, electroencephalography and the different evoked potential modalities.