The Neurological Examination of the Full Term Newborn Infant

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 590-591
Author(s):  
RICHMOND S. PAINE
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Newborn Infant ◽  
Neurological Examination ◽  
Test Item ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Full Term ◽  
Child Neurology ◽  
Term Newborn ◽  
Neonatal Neurology

This monograph is one of the excellent series of "Little Club Clinics" published as an extension of the journal, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. It outlines in detail, test item by test item, the method for examination of the nervous system of full-term newborn infants of Dr. Prechtl, who is one of the world's leading authorities on this. The method has been tested on some 1,500 babies, most of whom had abnormal obstetrical histories, and little exception would be taken to any of it by those most experienced in neonatal neurology in this country.

ACTIVITY OF GLUTAMIC-OXALACETIC TRANSAMINASE AND LACTIC DEHYDROGENASE IN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID AND PLASMA OF NORMAL AND ABNORMAL NEWBORN INFANTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-388
Author(s):  
Miriam Lending ◽  
Lawrence B. Slobody ◽  
Martin L. Stone ◽  
Richard E. Hosbach ◽  
Joan Mestern
Keyword(s):  
Cerebrospinal Fluid ◽  
Dehydrogenase Activity ◽  
Newborn Infant ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Lactic Dehydrogenase ◽  
Full Term ◽  
Transaminase Activity ◽  
Normal Range ◽  
Glutamic Oxalacetic Transaminase ◽  
Term Newborn

The activity of the enzymes, glutamic-oxalacetic transaminase and lactic dehydrogenase, in the cerebrospinal fluid and plasma was studied in 54 normal full-term newborn infants from 2½ to 240 hours of age, and in 20 newborn infants suspected to have intracranial pathology. The normal range of activities of these enzymes in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma are described. In the infants with suspected intracranial pathology, the average glutamic-oxalacetic transaminase activity of cerebrospinal fluid was 82% higher than in the normal newborn infant, and plasma glutamic-oxalacetic transaminase activity, had an 18% mean increase over normal. In the cerebrospinal fluid of the abnormal infants, lactic dehydrogenase activity had a mean increase of 309% over normal, and plasma lactic dehydrogenase activity revealed an increase of 11% over normal. Enzyme determinations in cerebrospinal fluid, particularly lactic dehydrogenase, may be useful in the study of newborn infants suspected of intracranial pathology.

REACTIVITY OF THE SKIN OF THE NEWBORN INFANT

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-197
Author(s):  
ABE MATHESON ◽  
MARVIN NIERENBERG ◽  
JOSEPH GREENGARD
Keyword(s):  
Gastrointestinal Tract ◽  
Newborn Infant ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Full Term ◽  
Protein Digestion ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Skin Reactions ◽  
Term Newborn ◽  
Antigen Antibody ◽  
Prematurely Born Infants

The skin of the full term newborn infant reacts to various dilutions of histamine phosphate with erythema but no wheal formation, as contrasted to the skin of older children where, with the same technic (scratch), whealing was frequent. The skin of the full term newborn infant is capable of fixing reagin locally. Similar fixation of antibody (and skin reactions with tendency to smaller wheals) was shown in prematurely born infants of varying ages and weight. The skin sites passively sensitized with serum containing reagin to egg showed erythema and whealing following the feeding of whole raw egg to both newborn infants and older children. This suggests that proteins or products of protein digestion, of sufficient complexity to be antigenic, are absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract of both newborn infants and older children. The above experiments support the view that the skin of the newborn infant is capable of demonstrating an antigen antibody reaction and that such reaction may be in the nature of erythema or whealing.

VESTIBULAR RESPONSES TO ROTATION IN THE NEWBORN INFANT

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1953 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-306
Author(s):  
MARGARET M. LAWRENCE ◽  
CARL R. FEIND
Keyword(s):  
Newborn Infant ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Full Term ◽  
Constant Speed ◽  
Adult Group ◽  
Term Newborn

Using a newly designed rotating apparatus with control of acceleration, deceleration and speed, the response of 64 full term newborn infants to rotation was studied. While awake, all infants showed head and eye deviation opposite to the direction of rotation during acceleration and in the same direction during deceleration; all infants had a normal nystagmus during acceleration and for several turns of constant speed. Then followed a reversal of the nystagmus as soon as deceleration took place. The duration of postrotational nystagmus following 10 turns in 20 seconds varied from 3 to 35 seconds with an average of 13.1 seconds. There is no comparable adult group reported as the stimulus is not constant or controlled. Sleeping infants had no response to rotation even though they gave normal responses while awake. Associated postrotation reactions were: flushing, eructation and voiding. The literature on vestibular responses to rotation in the newborn infant has been reviewed.

VASCULAR RESPONSES TO POSTURAL CHANGES IN NORMAL, NEWBORN INFANTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur J. Moss ◽  
George C. Emmanouilides ◽  
Michelle Monset-Couchard ◽  
Bertrand Marcano
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Newborn Infant ◽  
Blood Pressure Response ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Pressure Response ◽  
Full Term ◽  
Vascular Responses ◽  
Term Newborn ◽  
Postural Changes ◽  
Baroreceptor Reflexes

Blood pressure response to head-up tilting was studied in 40 normal, full-term, newborn infants. An initial fall in pressure with a consistent return to pre-tilt levels was observed in the majority. This supports the concept that baroreceptor reflexes are present and active in the full-term, newborn infant.

Breast-Feeding and Hyperbilirubinemia in Full-Term Newborn Infants

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 617-618
Author(s):  
CARLO CORCHIA ◽  
MARIA RUIU ◽  
MARCELLO ORZALESI
Keyword(s):  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Full Term ◽  
Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia ◽  
Term Infants ◽  
Term Newborn ◽  
School Of Medicine

To the Editor.— Osborn et al1 have reported a positive association between breast-feeding and neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in full-term infants. To give further support to the findings of Osborn et al, we wish to report the results of two similar studies that have been completed in two different hospitals. The first study was carried out in the nursery of the Second School of Medicine of Naples.2 Rooming-in was practiced from 9 am to 12 pm, and during the day, breastfed babies were only offered a supplement of 5% dextrose in water when appropriate.

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