The new neuromonitor will enable neonatologists to measure blood flow to the baby’s brain and its oxygenation noninvasively. It will allow physicians to intervene promptly so as to avoid serious clinical complications leading to brain damage, permanent physical damage or cognitive disabilities. Measurements with the device can be performed quickly and repeatedly if the condition is critical. Researchers said that reducing the risk of brain damage in extremely preterm babies could eventually decrease the number of children in Europe with disabilities by more than 1000 per year. “Our goal is to fill a void in the neonatal intensive care, where there aren’t any reliable tools to assess the brain blood flow and oxygenation in infants born prematurely,” said project coordinator Alessandro Torricelli, an associate professor of physics at Politecnico di Milano. The World Health Organization’s Global Action Report, published in 2012, states that about 15 million births each year are preterm, with more than 1 million of those resulting in complications. One in four babies born prematurely grows up with some kind of disability, mainly due to brain injury. The BabyLux initiative aims to help alleviate this problem. picoquant/news/item/picoquant-is-partner-of-the-european-babylux-project-for-premature-babies
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