From Neonatal Intensive Care to Neurocritical Care: Is It Still a Mirage? The Sicilian Multicenter Project

Table 1

Neonatal neurocritical care populations modified from Glass et al.’s study in Seminars inPediatric Neurology [9].

Acute acquired brain injury	Seizures	High risk for acquired brain injury	Developmental anomalies
Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)	Acute symptomatic seizures	Encephalopathy	Brain malformation
Arterial and venous ischemic stroke	Neonatal onset epilepsies (benign and malignant)	Extremely low gestational age (<28 weeks of gestation at birth)	Microcephaly
Intracranial parenchymal hemorrhage		Hydrocephalus	Dysmorphic neonate
High-grade intraventricular hemorrhage		Need for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)	Multiple congenital anomalies
Meningoencephalitis		Congenital heart malformations
Inborn error of metabolism		Postnatal cardiopulmonary arrest
		Vascular malformations of the central nervous system
		Symptomatic hypoglycemia