Who should we cool after perinatal asphyxia?

Marianne Thoresen

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Abstract

Three ongoing challenges have arisen after the introduction of therapeutic hypothermia (TH) as standard of care for term newborns with moderate or severe perinatal asphyxia: (i) to ensure that the correct group of infants are cooled; (ii) to optimize the delivery of TH and intensive care in relation to the severity of the encephalopathy; (iii) to systematically follow up the long-term efficacy of TH using comparable outcome data between centers and countries. This review addresses the entry criteria for TH, and discusses potential issues regarding patient selection, and management of TH: cooling mild, moderate, and very severe perinatal asphyxia, cooling longer or deeper, and/or starting with a greater delay. This includes cooling of patients outside of standard trial entry criteria, such as after postnatal collapse, premature infants, those with infection, and infants with metabolic, chromosomal or surgical diagnoses in addition to perinatal asphyxia.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)66-71
Number of pages6
JournalSeminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
Volume20
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2015

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