With earlier diagnosis and increasingly prompt diagnosis, mortality after diagnosis of<unk> s has decreased dramatically from an estimated 33% in the 1990s to around 10% in the 2010s. Underlying cause of the<unk>  remains the greatest predictor of ongoing<unk> s and neurologic problems later in life. Controversy remains with the extent of damage the<unk> s themselves cause. Clinician consensus is that frequent or intractable<unk> s (status epilepticus) leads to neuronal damage and are associated with later neurodevelopment problems. Developmental delay, cerebral palsy, and problems with vision and hearing are the most common poor outcomes following<unk> s. Severity of impairment ranges greatly and many infants develop normally once the initial<unk>  cause is treated. Studies have identified risk factors for poor outcomes after<unk> s. Infants that are premature, have hypoxemic ischemic encephalopathy, CNS infection, severe intraventricular hemorrhage, structural central nervous system defect, or severely abnormal EEG tracings tend to do worse than infants with focal strokes, transient metabolic issues (hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia), or clinical<unk> s without EEG abnormalities. There are many other risk factors for<unk> s. "Some of the risk factors that we have detected, such as low Apgar score, need for resuscitation at birth, and perinatal distress, were previously reported”. An apgar score indicates how a baby is immediately after birth. Perinatal distress is when a mother experiences a lot of stress during pregnancy. This shows how serious<unk> s really are, and not many people knew that. Risk of epilepsy later during childhood is a common question asked by parents in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Unfortunately, the answer is rarely clear cut as it depends greatly on the underlying cause. For all infants with<unk> s regardless of cause, the rate of subsequent<unk> s during childhood is estimated between 10 and 20%. Infants who survive severe global HIE have the highest rate of epilepsy later in life.
Neonatal seizure
Neonatal stroke
Neonatal encephalopathy
Neonatal meningitis
Shaken baby syndrome
Intraventricular hemorrhage
Benign neonatal seizures
Neonatal diabetes