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.
A stroke is caused when blood to the brain is blocked as a result of a clot (known as an ischemic stroke), or when a blood vessal in the brain bursts, spilling blood into the spaces surrounding the brain cells (known as a hemorrhagic stroke).