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Review
. 2007 Mar;92(3):261-5.
doi: 10.1136/adc.2005.086371.

Minimising neonatal brain injury: how research in the past five years has changed my clinical practice

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Minimising neonatal brain injury: how research in the past five years has changed my clinical practice

Malcolm Levene. Arch Dis Child. 2007 Mar.

Abstract

With improving neonatal survival for extremely premature babies, the challenge for neonatology is to improve outcome of surviving babies. This review concentrates on best evidence emerging in recent years on prevention of brain damage by early administration of drugs as well as avoidance of induced brain damage by hyperventilation and dexamethasone therapy given postnatally for chronic lung disease.

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