Neonatology
Neonatal scores for transition, gestational age, encephalopathy, pain, jaundice, growth and severity.
This collection brings together 22 pediatric tools related to neonatology, including clinical descriptions, validation status, references and calculators when active.
Covers transition, encephalopathy, pain/sedation, jaundice and neonatal growth. Sarnat, García-Alix and COMFORTneo are linked with exact variant and evidence so distinct instruments are not treated as equivalent.
Featured tools
- COMFORTneo
- García-Alix Neonatal Encephalopathy Rating Scale
- Classic Sarnat Staging (1976)
- Modified Sarnat / NICHD
- WHO Growth Percentiles
How to use this category
Tools are grouped by clinical area to make them easier to discover, while each page retains its own population, purpose, evidence level and limitations. Before using a score or calculator, review the exact variant, care setting and implementation status shown on its page.
Evidence and availability
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Scope and maintenance
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Responsible clinical reading
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Available tools
- Apgar Score — Assesses early newborn transition through five observational domains.
- Silverman-Andersen Score — Scores neonatal respiratory distress using clinical signs.
- Ballard / New Ballard — Estimates gestational age using physical and neuromuscular maturity.
- Dubowitz Score — Gestational age assessment based on neonatal maturity.
- Classic Sarnat Staging (1976) — Classic descriptive Stage I, II and III neonatal encephalopathy framework integrating clinical, autonomic and electroencephalographic findings.
- Modified Sarnat / NICHD — Six-category structured examination with 0-3 severity coding and a 0-18 Total Sarnat Score.
- Thompson HIE Score — Nine-domain longitudinal clinical score describing neonatal encephalopathy severity.
- Eat Sleep Console — Functional model for neonatal withdrawal assessment.
- COMFORTneo — Multidimensional neonatal sedation and pain scale.
- Bhutani Nomogram — Risk nomogram for neonatal bilirubin.
- AAP 2022 Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia — Operational access to the 2022 AAP phototherapy and exchange-transfusion thresholds through PediTools.
- Fenton Neonatal Growth — Neonatal growth reference for preterm infants.
- Fenton 2025 Preterm Growth — Third-generation Fenton charts for weight, length, and head circumference with external access to percentiles and Z-scores.
- García-Alix Neonatal Encephalopathy Rating Scale — Reference scale for structured neonatal-encephalopathy assessment.
- Modified Bell Staging for NEC — Reference staging framework for necrotizing enterocolitis.
- SNAPPE-II — Nine-variable neonatal score for population-level severity and risk during the first 12 hours.
- CRIB II — Reference score for neonatal risk in preterm infants.
- nSOFA — Reference score for neonatal sepsis-associated organ dysfunction.
- Neonatal Pain, Agitation and Sedation Scale — Reference scale for neonatal pain, agitation and sedation with serial use.
- Échelle Douleur Inconfort Nouveau-Né — Reference scale for prolonged neonatal pain or discomfort and follow-up.
- Neonatal Facial Coding System — Visual and reference surface about facial actions associated with neonatal pain; it does not reproduce protected images.
- 21-item Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring System — 21-symptom FNAST for longitudinal assessment of neonatal withdrawal signs; descriptive output without treatment instructions.