Prediction of Bayley and Stanford-Binet scores with a group of very low birthweight children.

Aim: To study the prediction of cognitive development with a group of very low birthweight infants (<1500 g) at 18 months and at 4 years of age.

Methods: Bayley Scales of Infant Development-II Mental Development Indexes (MDI), and Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale (S-B) Composite Scores were studied in a population of 334 children with birthweights <1500 g. Independent variables measured were gestational age, birthweight, gender and parental socio-economic status (SES).

Follow up of a randomised trial of two different courses of dexamethasone for preterm babies at risk of chronic lung disease.

Objectives: To report 18 month outcome of a randomised trial of two courses of dexamethasone to prevent chronic lung disease of prematurity.

Study Design: Babies of birth weight 1250 g or less ventilated at 7 days of age were randomised to a 42 day reducing course (long) or a 3 day pulsed (pulse) course of dexamethasone. Growth, cardiovascular status, and respiratory and neurodevelopmental outcomes were assessed at 18 months.

Neurodevelopmental outcome of infants treated with head cooling and mild hypothermia after perinatal asphyxia.

Objectives: To determine the neurodevelopmental outcome of infants treated with head cooling with systemic hypothermia after hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

Study Design: Infants >/=37 weeks' gestation, who had an umbilical artery pH View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Some influences on cognitive development in a group of very low birthweight infants at four years.

Aim: To report the findings of an audit of 91 < 1,500 grams birthweight children at four years of age and consider the cognitive and behavioural results in the light of gestation, birthweight and socio-economic status.

Method: Children born in 1993 were assessed using the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Conners' Parent Rating Scales and clinical evaluation. Parent interview provided further information on development, health and behaviour.

Developmental outcome at 18 months of children less than 1000 grams.

Aims: Aims of this paper were to carry out an audit of 105 extremely low birth weight infants at 18 months of age, identifying problems, disseminating the resulting information and providing a basis for future work.

Methods: Children born in 1990-2 were classified in categories I to IV according to outcome, and selected perinatal variables were analysed for these groupings.

Results: The disability rate (categories I and II) within this cohort was 21% a similar finding to that reported in other literature.