Neuroprotection in the Newborn, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

This issue of Clinics in Perinatology devoted to Neuroprotection in the Newborn examines the physiology of brain injury, detection of brain injury, protection and treatment of brain injury: hypothermia, and pharmacologic methods of neuroprotection. Drs. Alan Spitzer and Robert White have assembled a team of authoritative authors to pen articles on Protection of cerebral perfusion and oxygenation during the first few days of life in high-risk preterm infants, Cytokines and perinatal brain injury, Use of aEEG for assessing neonatal neurological injury, Anatomic changes and imaging in assessing brain injury, Nutritional/metabolic brain injury during the neonatal period, Brain cooling for neuroprotection - the pros and cons, Brain cooling for the preterm infant, Supportive care for infants during brain cooling, Technical aspects of starting a cooling program, Prevention of IVH in the preterm infant, iNO and neuroprotection, and Neuroprotection during heart surgery in infants.