Babies born at less than 37 weeks gestation (premature) have different nutritional needs than babies born at full term (after 38 weeks). Premature babies will often stay in the neonatal intensive care unit. There they are watched closely to make sure they are getting the right balance of fluids and nutrition.
Indeed, hypotension may result in low flow or so-called watershed infarctions, and more significantly, it may augment injury from other causes. Due to the limitation of retrospective design, the study did not review the link between postoperative hypotension and the occurrence of stroke.
Tweet on Twitter. Watershed area refers to regions of the body that receive dual blood supply from the most distal branches of two large arteries. During times of blockage of one of the arteries that supply the watershed area, such as in atherosclerosis, these regions are spared from ischemia by virtue of their dual supply.