Cerebral function monitoring in neonates with perinatal asphyxia--preliminary results.

Introduction: This study was based on foreign studies which confirmed the importance of amplitude-integrated electroencefalographic monitoring (aEEG) in the early prediction of the future neurological development of newborn infants with hypoxic syndrome. Our aim was to confirm the correlation between the type of aEEG trace and the level of brain damage in newborn infants in the early hours after the hypoxic event and to introduce this method into routine practice.

Material And Methods: With 56 newborn infants having suffered a perinatal hypoxic event (the average umbilical arterial pH was 6.