Cerebral ultrasound and neurological impairment: telling the future.

Cerebral ultrasound and neurological impairment: telling the future After death, severe neurodevelopmental disability is the most feared complication of neonatal intensive care. Over the last 10 years, the practice of regularly scanning the brain of tiny babies has developed in the belief that this will allow the staff to monitor it realistically for signs of major compli- cations. It is therefore implicit that knowledge of these abnormalities correlates with an accurate prediction of out- come. This annotation reviews our current understanding of the significance of cerebral ultrasound abnormalities detected in the neonatal period with reference to subsequent outcome.