Effect of Neonatal Seizures on Cognitive Outcome of Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy

Abstract

The independent effect of clinical neonatal seizures and their treatment on longterm neurodevelopmental outcome in 77 term newborns at risk for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) was determined in a study at University of California San Francisco.

Keywords

• medications
• mild/moderate seizures
• composite seizure score