Newborn Intensive Care and Long‐term Prognosis

Abstract

A retrospective follow-up study of low-birthweight children and two control groups was carried out at approximately four years after birth. Children who were born pre-term, with birthweights appropriate-for-dates, were found to have approximately the same incidence of handicap as children who were born at term but were small-for-dates. Furthermore, pre-term infants who were cared for in the intensive care nursery and given intravenous fluid therapy during the first hours after birth had fewer handicaps than those cared for in the regular nursery or those in the intensive care nursery who received