Related Experiment Video

Updated: Feb 6, 2026

Hemodynamic Precision in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit using Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography
09:31

Hemodynamic Precision in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit using Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography

Published on: January 27, 2023

1.6K

Long-Term Functioning and Participation Across the Life Course for Preterm Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Graduates

Frances A Carter1, Michael E Msall2

  • 1Department of Psychology, The Center for Early Childhood Research, University of Chicago, 5848 S. University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

Clinics in Perinatology
|August 27, 2018
PubMed

Insights

Long-term outcomes for preterm infants require comprehensive life-course assessments beyond survival. Evaluating functional development and providing early support optimizes lifelong health and community participation for these vulnerable children.

Area of Science:

  • Neonatal neuroscience
  • Developmental pediatrics
  • Longitudinal health outcomes

Background:

  • Preterm birth poses significant risks to brain development.
  • Neonatal morbidities like bronchopulmonary dysplasia and sepsis impact long-term function.
  • Current assessments often focus narrowly on survival and early development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine life-course trajectories of risk and resilience in the preterm neonatal brain.
  • To advocate for comprehensive functional outcome evaluations beyond standard neonatal assessments.
  • To identify key areas for proactive support to optimize lifelong well-being.

Main Methods:

  • Population-based analysis of functional outcomes across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
  • Moving beyond traditional neonatal morbidity counts (e.g., BPD, ROP, sepsis).
  • Utilizing comprehensive assessments beyond the Bayley Scales of Infant Development.

Main Results:

  • Survival alone is insufficient for understanding preterm infant neurodevelopmental outcomes.
  • A broader, life-course perspective is crucial for assessing functional trajectories.
  • Early and ongoing family and child support significantly impacts long-term functioning.

Conclusions:

  • Clinicians must adopt a life-course approach to evaluate preterm infant outcomes.
  • Comprehensive assessments are needed to capture the full spectrum of functional development.
  • Proactive family and developmental support is essential for optimizing academic, social, and vocational success.

Keywords:
Academic performanceFunctional outcomesLearning disordersLifecourse health developmentNICU graduatesNeurodevelopmental disordersSurvival rates

More Related Videos

Clinical Practice Protocol of Creative Music Therapy for Preterm Infants and Their Parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit11:50

Clinical Practice Protocol of Creative Music Therapy for Preterm Infants and Their Parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Published on: January 7, 2020

27.7K
Monitoring Lung Function with Electrical Impedance Tomography in the Intensive Care Unit05:56

Monitoring Lung Function with Electrical Impedance Tomography in the Intensive Care Unit

Published on: September 6, 2024

6.3K

Related Concept Videos

Functions of Life01:23

Functions of Life

Human life is characterized by a variety of functions that are essential for survival and well-being. These functions include metabolism, movement, development, growth and reproduction.
Metabolism
The basic function of an organism is to consume energy and molecules in foods, convert some of it into fuel for movement, sustain body functions, and build and maintain body structures. There are two types of reactions that accomplish this: anabolism and catabolism.
Anabolism is the process whereby...
26.7K
Half-life of a Reaction02:42

Half-life of a Reaction

The half-life of a reaction (t1/2) is the time required for one-half of a given amount of reactant to be consumed. In each succeeding half-life, half of the remaining concentration of the reactant is consumed. For example, during the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide, during the first half-life (from 0.00 hours to 6.00 hours), the concentration of H2O2 decreases from 1.000 M to 0.500 M. During the second half-life (from 6.00 hours to 12.00 hours), the concentration decreases from 0.500 M to...
39.1K
Measurement: Derived Units03:02

Measurement: Derived Units

The International System of Units or SI system, by international agreement, has fixed measurement units for seven fundamental properties: length, mass, time, temperature, electric current, amount of substance, and luminosity. These are called the SI base units.
55.7K
Characteristics of Life01:23

Characteristics of Life

Biology is a natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their structure, function, development, interactions, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. The field's scope is extensive and divided into several specialized disciplines, such as anatomy, physiology, ethology, genetics, and many more. All living things share a few key traits, including cellular organization, heritable genetic material and the ability to adapt/evolve, metabolism to regulate energy needs, the...
261.8K
Measurement: Standard Units03:38

Measurement: Standard Units

Every measurement provides three kinds of information: the size or magnitude of the measurement (a number), a standard of comparison for the measurement (a unit), and an indication of the uncertainty of the measurement. While the number and unit are explicitly represented when a quantity is written, the uncertainty is an aspect of the errors in the measurement results.
80.9K
The Angiosperm Life Cycle02:39

The Angiosperm Life Cycle

Plants have a life cycle split between two multicellular stages: a haploid stage—with cells containing one set of chromosomes—and a diploid stage—with cells containing two sets of chromosomes. The haploid stage is the gamete-producing gametophyte, and the diploid stage is the spore-producing sporophyte.
72.6K