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Prevention of Epilepsy by reducing Neonatal Encephalopathy
“We at PREVENT, believe that we could help reduce epilepsy by preventing brain injuries in babies.”
Worldwide approximately 70 million people have epilepsy. A common cause being, brain injuries sustained during childbirth.
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The PREVENT study aims to prevent epilepsy caused by neonatal
encephalopathy in India by implementation of a pragmatic intrapartum care bundle. The first phase of our study has been completed and we have now moved on to the second phase on 1st of March 2022. The site investigators met face to face at Bengaluru in February 2022 for discussing the potential site specific challenges with respect to the implementation of care bundle and came up with the optimum approach. As the second phase began, we organized a formal dissemination event and the care bundle is now actively implemented across all the sites. So far, we have enrolled more than 45,000 mothers for the study. We also diligently continue with our academic sessions for team such as multi country journal clubs, weekly EEG training sessions and also the PhD programmes.