[Clinical multiparametric monitoring of newborn infants]

Neonatal respiratory disturbances are treated by oxygen and modern sophisticated ventilatory assistance ensuring simultaneously adequate tissue perfusion. Intensive care is often rather aggressive. By continuous monitoring of heart-rate variability, blood pressure, respiration rate, esophageal pressure difference and transcutaneous blood gases it is possible for a neonatologist to apply optimal intensive care. In this way complications such as hypoxic brain damage, retrolental fibroplacia and bronchopulmonary dysplacia may be avoided.