30^th Neonatology and Primary Care Congress

Neonatal Neurology

Neonatal neurology considered as a potential subspecialty of paediatric neurology. It has traditionally been led by neonatologists, both in the clinic and in research settings. The neurologist's role on a neonatal unit has mostly been limited to brief consultations for newborn infants that do not respond to first‐line therapies. Advances in the care of high-risk newborn babies have contributed to reduced mortality rates for premature and term births, but the surviving neonates constantly have increased neurological morbidity. The usually encountered neurologic diagnoses in the neonatal intensive care unit are brain injury relating to prematurity, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, seizures, stroke, cerebral malformation, and abnormal tone.