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Newborn nervous system diseases

Canada

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Hypothermia for newborns with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy [2012]
  • Perinatal brachial plexus palsy [2010]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Repeated lumbar or ventricular punctures in newborns with intraventricular hemorrhage
  • Rapid correction of early metabolic acidaemia in comparison with placebo, no intervention or slow correction in LBW infants
  • Postnatal phenobarbitone for the prevention of intraventricular hemorrhage in preterm infants
  • Intraventricular streptokinase after intraventricular hemorrhage in newborn infants
  • Intraventricular antibiotics for bacterial meningitis in neonates
  • Fluid restriction for term infants with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy following perinatal asphyxia
  • Diuretic therapy for newborn infants with posthemorrhagic ventricular dilatation
  • Cooling for newborns with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy
  • Anticonvulsants for preventing mortality and morbidity in full term newborns with perinatal asphyxia
  • Anticonvulsants for neonates with seizures

New Zealand

• Auckland District Health Board
  • Ultrasound Scans for Intracranial Haemorrhage and PVLM [2005]
  • Neonatal Hypotonia [2004]
  • Neonatal Encephalopathy [2004]
  • Management of Neonatal Seizures [2001]

South Africa

• Newborn Care Manual - Perinatal Education Programme
  • Trauma and bleeding [2005]

Sweden

• Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care
  • Therapeutic Hypothermia Following Perinatal Asphyxia [2009]

United Kingdom

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
  • Drainage, irrigation and fibrinolytic therapy (DRIFT) for post-haemorrhagic hydrocephalus in preterm infants [2011]
  • Therapeutic hypothermia with intracorporeal temperature monitoring for hypoxic perinatal brain injury [2010]

United States of America

• American Academy of Neurology
  • Practice parameter: Neuroimaging of the neonate: Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society [2002]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Prevention and Management of Positional Skull Deformities in Infants [2003]

• American College of Radiology
  • ACR Practice Guideline for the Performance of an Ultrasound Examination of the Neonatal Spine [2007]
  • ACR Practice Guideline for the Performance of Neurosonography in Neonates and Young Children [2006]

• University of Michigan Evidence-Based Pediatrics
  • Prophylactic Indomethacin Reduces IVH and Symptomatic PDA in Preterm Infants [2007]
  • Umbilical Artery Catheter Blood Collection Affects Cerebral Oxygenation [2006]
  • Serial Lumbar Punctures Don't Prevent Hydrocephalus, Poor Neurodevelopmental Outcome, or Death in Neonates with Intraventricular Hemorrhage [2000]

Articles in journals

• American Family Physician
  • The Abnormal Fontanel [2003]

• American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Effect of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation of preterm infants on disease risk and neurodevelopment: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials [2008]

• American Journal of Roentgenology
  • Imaging Findings in Neonatal Hypoxia: A Practical Review [2009]

• Anesthesiology
  • Preconditioning and postinsult therapies for perinatal hypoxic-ischemic injury at term [2010]

• Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
  • Prevalence of early neurodevelopmental disabilities in Mexico: a systematic review [2009]

• BMC Pediatrics
  • A systematic review of cooling for neuroprotection in neonates with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy - are we there yet? [2007]

• British Medical Journal
  • Neurological outcomes at 18 months of age after moderate hypothermia for perinatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy: synthesis and meta-analysis of trial data [2010]
  • Clinical effectiveness of treatment with hyperbaric oxygen for neonatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy: systematic review of Chinese literature [2006]
  • Neurodevelopmental outcomes after preterm birth [2004]

• Chang Gung Medical Journal
  • Neonatal vitamin-responsive epileptic encephalopathies [2010]

• Clinics in Perinatology
  • Neuroprotection in the Newborn Infant [2009]
  • Neonatal Seizures: An Update on Mechanisms and Management [2009]
  • Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy in the Term Infant [2009]

• Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
  • Obstetric Brachial Plexus Palsy [2009]

• Indian Pediatrics
  • Therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal encephalopathy implications for neonatal units in India [2009]
  • Pyridoxine-dependent seizures: a review [2003]

• International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience
  • Modeling premature brain injury and recovery [2009]

• Journal of Child Neurology
  • Cerebellum of the Premature Infant: Rapidly Developing, Vulnerable, Clinically Important [2009]

• Journal of Clinical Ultrasound
  • Mechanisms of Injury to White Matter Adjacent to a Large Intraventricular Hemorrhage in the Preterm Brain [2010]

• Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • Neuroinflammation and MMPs: potential therapeutic targets in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic injury [2009]

• Journal of Neurotrauma
  • Neonatal Encephalopathy: Treatment with Hypothermia [2009]

• Pediatric Research
  • Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Premature Infants: Mechanism of Disease [2009]
  • Endoplasmic reticulum stress, inflammation, and perinatal brain damage [2009]

• Pediatrics
  • Encephalopathy of Prematurity Includes Neuronal Abnormalities [2005]
  • Implementation of Potentially Better Practices for the Prevention of Brain Hemorrhage and Ischemic Brain Injury in Very Low Birth Weight Infants [2003]
  • Evaluation and Development of Potentially Better Practices for the Prevention of Brain Hemorrhage and Ischemic Brain Injury in Very Low Birth Weight Infants [2003]

• RadioGraphics
  • A New View of the Neonatal Brain: Clinical Utility of Supplemental Neurologic US Imaging Windows [2001]
  • US of the Spinal Cord in Newborns: Spectrum of Normal Findings, Variants, Congenital Anomalies, and Acquired Diseases [2000]

• Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
  • Synergistic neuroprotective therapies with hypothermia [2010]

• Seminars in Pediatric Neurology
  • The Encephalopathy of Prematurity – Brain Injury and Impaired Brain Development Inextricably Intertwined [2009]

• Seminars in Perinatology
  • Understanding Brain Injury and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities in the Preterm Infant: The Evolving Role of Advanced MRI [2010]
  • Noninvasive Cerebral Perfusion Imaging in High-Risk Neonates [2010]
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for Imaging the Newborn Brain – A Technical Review [2010]
  • Basic principles and concepts underlying recent advances in magnetic resonance imaging of the developing brain [2010]
  • Applications of Positron Emission Tomography in the Newborn Nursery [2010]

• Stroke
  • Adult or Perinatal Brain Injury: Does Sex Matter? [2005]

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