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What to Expect When You Have an Extremely Premature Infant (cont.)

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  1. Tyson JE, et al. (2008). Intensive care for extreme prematurity—Moving beyond gestational age. New England Journal of Medicine, 358(16): 1672–1681.

  2. Stoll BJ, Adams-Chapman I (2007). Prematurity and intrauterine growth retardation section of The high-risk infant. In RM Kliegman et al., eds., Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 18th ed., pp. 701–710. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.

  3. Hack M, et al. (2005). Chronic conditions, functional limitations, and special health care needs of school-aged children born with extremely low-birth-weight in the 1990s. JAMA, 294(3): 318–325.

  4. Costeloe K on behalf of the EPICure Study Group (2006). EPICure: facts and figures: Why preterm labour should be treated. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 113(Suppl 3): 10–12.

  5. Samara M, et al. (2008). Pervasive behavior problems at 6 years of age in a total-population sample of children born at <25 weeks of gestation. Pediatrics, 122(3): 562–573.

  6. Hille ETM, et al. (2007). Functional outcomes and participation in young adulthood for very preterm and very low-birth-weight infants: The Dutch project on preterm and small for gestational age infants at 19 years of age. Pediatrics. Published online August 31, 2007 (doi:10.1542/peds.2006-2407).

Other Works Consulted

  • Batton DG, Committee on Fetus and Newborn (2009). Antenatal counseling regarding resuscitation at an extremely low gestational age. Pediatrics, 124(1): 422–427.

  • Committee on Fetus and Newborn, American Academy of Pediatrics (2007, reaffirmed 2010). Noninitiation or withdrawal of intensive care for high-risk newborns. Pediatrics, 119(2): 401–403. Also available online: http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/pediatrics;119/2/401.pdf.

  • Johnson S (2007). Cognitive and behavioural outcomes following very preterm birth. Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 12(5): 363–373.

  • Msall ME (2007). The limits of viability and the uncertainty of neuroprotection: Challenges in optimizing outcomes in extreme prematurity. Pediatrics, 119(1): 158–160.

  • Pignotti MS, Donzelli G (2008). Perinatal care at the threshold of viability: An international comparison of practical guidelines for the treatment of extremely preterm births. Pediatrics, 121(1): e193–e198.

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