Serial neurobehavioral assessments in preterm infants Article

Medoff-Cooper, B, Delivoria-Papadopoulos, M, Brooten, D. (1991). Serial neurobehavioral assessments in preterm infants . Nursing Research, 40(2), 94-97. 10.1097/00006199-199103000-00007

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  • Medoff-Cooper, B; Delivoria-Papadopoulos, M; Brooten, D

abstract

  • The purpose of this study was to compare serial neurohehaoioral assessments in a sample of preterm infants with intraventricular hemorrlxage (TVH) to those of a group of unaffected preterm infants. Of the 30 infants included in the study, 5 infants had a grade III or TVIV1 intraventricular hemorrhage. Infants with TVH demonstrated more abnormalities in viental status and a cluster of abnormal neurologic findings (persistent ankle clonus, tremidousness, and brisk deep tendon reflexes). Of the 30 infants, 20 infants were included in a brain metabolism study. Infants who had experienced an TVH had significantly different brain metabolism findings, as measured by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). There was a significant correlation between one measure of brain metabolism (PCr/PI) and the neurobehavioral assessment ratingfor infants with TVH. © Lippincott-Raven Publishers.

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publication date

  • January 1, 1991

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start page

  • 94

end page

  • 97

volume

  • 40

issue

  • 2