Monthly Archives: September 2025

Predicting neurological and developmental outcomes. Why? How?

There are a huge number of publications correlating medium term outcomes (by which I mean outcomes around 1 to 2 years of age) with findings in the neonatal period. Most have concerned various approaches to brain imaging, although other studies … Continue reading

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Caffeine is good for the preterm brain; might more caffeine be even better?

One of the pivotal RCTs in neonatology was the CAP study (Schmidt B, et al. Long-term effects of caffeine therapy for apnea of prematurity. N Engl J Med. 2007;357(19):1893–902). We performed that study because there was no data on the … Continue reading

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