Condition monitoring of premature babies in intensive care can be carried out using a Factorial Switching Linear Dynamical System (FSLDS) [15]. A crucial part of training the FSLDS is the manual calibration stage, where an interval of normality must be identified for each baby that is monitored. In this paper we replace this manual step by using a classifier to predict whether an interval is no...

BACKGROUND Temperature measurement is a vital part of daily neonatal care. Accurate measurements are important for detecting deviations from normal values for both optimal incubator and radiant warmer functioning. The purpose of monitoring the temperature is to maintain the infant in a thermoneutral environmental zone. This physiological zone is defined as the narrow range of environmental temp...

Abstract Seizures in neonates should prompt rapid evaluation to verify the diagnosis, determine etiology, and initiate appropriate treatment. Neonatal seizure diagnosis requires EEG confirmation clinical observation alone is insufficient. Although most neonatal seizures are related acute brain injury, some present early-onset structural or metabolic/genetic epilepsy. Video-EEG monitoring, gold ...

Background: The outcome of neonatal surgery depends on safe anaesthesia, competent surgery and good nursing care. The University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Uyo, Nigeria, established in February 2008, has specialist anaesthetic and surgical manpower. The aim of the study was to determine the outcome and contributing factors to mortality in neonatal surgical emergencies at this new tertiary health...

Zayachkivsky A, Lehmkuhle MJ, Fisher JH, Ekstrand JJ, Dudek FE. Recording EEG in immature rats with a novel miniature telemetry system. J Neurophysiol 109: 900–911, 2013. First published October 31, 2012; doi:10.1152/jn.00593.2012.—Serial EEG recordings from immature rat pups are extremely difficult to obtain but important for analyzing animal models of neonatal seizures and other pediatric neu...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the effectiveness of intrapartum fetal monitoring by cardiotocography plus ST analysis using a strict protocol for performance of fetal blood sampling. METHODS We performed a multicenter randomized trial among laboring women with a high-risk singleton pregnancy in cephalic presentation beyond 36 weeks of gestation. Participants were assigned to monitoring by cardiotocogr...

OBJECTIVE This study investigates the clinical value of monitoring blood levels of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), high mobility group protein Bl (HMGBl), and neuron-specific enolase (NSE), and examining an amplitude-integrated electroencephalogram (aEEG) for the diagnosis and short-term prognosis of brain damage caused by neonatal asphyxia. PATIENTS AND METHODS Sixty full-term neonates born...

Clinical operators in one of the most difficult health care fields, namely neonatal neurology, on a daily basis have to face the diagnosis of epileptic seizures. Most of the neonates affected by perinatal diseases are at risk of neonatal seizures, which are the most common sign of acute neurological dysfunctions and must be promptly and accurately recognized in order to establish timely treatme...

We recruited 275 full term and preterm infants into a prospective evaluation of continuous four channel electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring in the diagnosis and prognosis of neonatal seizures. EEG seizure activity was found in 55 infants; clinical signs were completely simultaneous in only 12 of these, they were present but limited in another 20, and were completely absent in the remaining...

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