Tammy N. Tsuchida

TL;DR: Prophylactic surfactant administration to infants judged to be at risk of developing respiratory distress syndrome (intubated infants less than 30-32 weeks gestation) has been demonstrated to improve clinical outcome.

TL;DR: Critically ill neonates are at high risk for adverse neurologic sequelae, but the bedside evaluation of a neonate's neurologic status, especially cortical functioning, is extremely limited, and continuous video EEG provides particularly useful information about brain function.

TL;DR: In this article, a large contemporary profile of consecutively enrolled newborns with seizures treated at centers that use continuous video-electroencephalogram (cEEG) per the guidelines of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, about one-half had high seizure burden, received ≥2 antiseizure medications, and/or died or had abnormal examination at discharge.

TL;DR: This revision to the EEG Guidelines is an update incorporating current electroencephalography technology and practice and was previously published as Guideline 5.

TL;DR: Genetic testing is now warranted for newborns with epilepsy in order to guide management and inform discussions of prognosis, as neonatal epilepsy is often due to identifiable genetic causes.