Protecting brains and saving futures guidelines: A prospective, multicenter, and observational study on the use of telemedicine for neonatal neurocritical care in Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Management of high-risk newborns should involve the use of standardized protocols and training, continuous and specialized brain monitoring with electroencephalography (EEG), amplitude integrated EEG, Near Infrared Spectroscopy, and neuroimaging. Brazil is a large country with disparities in health care assessment and some neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are not well structured with trained personnel able to provide adequate neurocritical care. To reduce this existing gap, an advanced telemedicine model of neurocritical care called Protecting Brains and Saving Futures (PBSF) Guidelines was developed and implemented in a group of Brazilian NICUs.

Methods

A prospective, multicenter, and observational study will be conducted in all 20 Brazilian NICUs using the

SUBMITTER: Variane GFT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8754327 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature