Nine European partners, including Spain, participate in the Babylux project, designed to reduce the risk of brain damage in premature babies.
An international team of researchers, with funding from the European Commission, has developed a pioneering technique non-invasive which aims to control, with a high level of precision, the clinical brain status of premature babies.
The research, which started in Milan yesterday and will last three years, will consist of monitoring the NIRS optical signals of babies, a tool to study brain activity, in order to reduce the risk of brain damage by 20% to 25 percent, which means that the number of children with disabilities would be reduced by more than 1,000 per year.
Neonatologists will be able to measure the blood flow to the brain and its oxygenation to detect any abnormality and act quickly to avoid serious complications that can cause permanent brain and physical damage as well as cognitive disabilities.
According to the WHO, 15 million premature babies are born every year in the world, a figure that continues to increase, of which around 1.1 million babies die from complications.
Baby Lux It is a very important project because of its magnitude and the results it will provide to prevent the brain damage of the most vulnerable premature babies who have to remain in intensive neonatal therapy.
Via | With Health Photo | César Rincón on Flickr CC On Babies and more | Babies whose lives at birth hang by a thread
