Table 1 Effects of postnatal corticosteroids on respiratory outcome, mortality and neurodevelopment.

Outcome	Time of initiation of corticosteroid course
	Early	Moderately early	Delayed
BPD	↓	↓	↓
Death or BPD	↓	↓	↓
Failure to extubate	↓	↓	↓
Mortality at 28 days	No effect	↓	Not applicable
Mortality by discharge	No effect	No effect	No effect
Neurodevelopment	Worse	No different (?)	↑CP, ↓ mortality

BPD, bronchopulmonary dysplasia; CP, cerebral palsy.

Adapted from Halliday et al.9,10,11