30/07/2024
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Joanne Easterbrook was joined by Dr Janet Rennie, a Consultant in Neonatal Medicine with a special interest in brain injury in babies.
Dr Rennie discussed the following:
- The role of antenatal steroids
- Intraventricular haemorrhage
- White matter injury (periventricular leukomalacia) caused by
- hypoxic ischaemia
- cytokine injury
- hypocarbia (low carbon dioxide)
- Necrotising enterocolitis.