Delivering critical early-life medication to newborns at risk of cerebral palsy from suspected brain injury will be safer thanks to a University of Alberta research team.
Doctors have long known that brain injury during labour and delivery is a leading cause of cerebral palsy, a group of conditions affecting movement and posture, but they've had little ability to help their tiny patients. In addition to lacking diagnostic tools to confirm the presence of a brain injury, doctors have had few interventions at their disposal.
"It's a dual effect," says Larry Unsworth, a professor of biomedical engineering and member of the Women and Children's Health Research Institute.
