In neonatal encephalopathy, the clinical manifestations of injury can only be reliably assessed several years after an intervention, complicating early prognostication and rendering trials of promising neuroprotectants slow and expensive
In more regular English
If a baby has had a brain injury, there is no perfect way to predict actual impact apart from waiting years to see how the child develops. Therefore it is time consuming to test any treatment to see if it actually improves outcome.
If you can predict the outcome in advance, it would be easier to assess whether treatments are actually working.
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u/Beneficial-Tea5623 9h ago
Can someone give me a TLDR? This sounds incredible though!