Applied Evidence
Narrative ReviewDevelopmental medicine and child neurology2018

Hypoxia-ischemia is not an antecedent of most preterm brain damage: the illusion of validity.

Floyd Gilles, Pierre Gressens, Olaf Dammann, Alan Leviton

PMID 28656697

WHAT IT FOUND

No original patient outcomes are reported.

There is no finding to change therapy practice.

What this paper is

This is a narrative review and commentary. It says hypoxia-ischemia should not be assumed as the cause of most preterm brain injury. It reports no original patients, methods, or outcomes, so there is no primary finding for therapists to act on.

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The study

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    Floyd Gilles, Pierre Gressens, Olaf Dammann, et al. Hypoxia-ischemia is not an antecedent of most preterm brain damage: the illusion of validity. Developmental medicine and child neurology. 2018.

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