Comment :The Network and its activities will be extended till end March 2005
Project Number
Convenors
Coordination Committee chaired by:
- JacquesSizunE-Mail
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de BrestDépartement de PédiatrieNICUBrestFrance
Abstract
Improvements in perinatal care have led preterm infant mortality rates to fall significantly during the last decade, but there has not been a corresponding improvement in the long term developmental outcome for those very low birth rate infants that do survive. Mortality rates through respiratory failure have been reduced as a result, but the incidence of neurological damage sustained during the vital early weeks of preterm infants has remained about the same. This Network has been conceived to address the wider multidisciplinary developmental issues that need to be resolved to improve the short and long-term neuro-behavioural prospects of surviving preterm infants. The Networks research will focus on the effects of developmental care.
Duration
3 years, from January 2002 to December 2004.
It was agreed to extend the Network to March 2005 for holding the last workshop.
