Giuseppe Buonocore • Carlo V. Bellieni
Editors

2008

Suffering, Pain and Risk of Brain Damage
in the Fetus and Newborn

For many years we have been talking about a very special patient, the embryo; and the numerous and encouraging successes brought about by embryofetal medicine in the application of both noninvasive therapies and invasive ultrasound-guided treatment are well known. On the other hand, it is more and more often the case today that the small patients in neonatal care are premature babies who have come to the world at a particularly low gestational age.