[Results of intensive care and intensive therapy of very low birth-weight infants (author's transl)].
Newborns of less than 1500 g birth-weight are thought to be especially at risk with regard to their psychomotor development. Among 71 such infants admitted to the University Childrens Clinic, Tübingen, in 1974-1975, 43 survived (38% mortality). All but two of them were followed serially and assessed for their psychomotor development. Five were found to be abnormal (12%), three of them most probably having sustained CNS damage prenatally.
D002675:Child, Preschool; D003422:Critical Care; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D011596:Psychomotor Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000517:prevention & control; D012306:Risk
Ergebnisse der Intensivüberwachung und Intensivtherapie bei Neugeborenen mit sehr niedrigem Geburtsgewicht.