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Whole-Body Cooling and Erythropoietin in Neonatal Cervical Spine Injury.

There is mounting experimental evidence that therapeutic hypothermia (TH) mitigates secondary mechanisms of spinal cord injury (SCI). There is a potential synergistic neuroprotective effect for SCI through the combination of TH and other promising therapies. The treatment of TH for SCI has promising results in adults, but its use is anecdotal in newborns with SCI. SCI is a rare, serious, and often fatal complication of instrumental delivery. For the first time, we describe the case of a male newborn infant with upper SCI who was born at term age and was offered whole-body cooling and erythropoietin treatment with unsuccessful outcome. There are still many unresolved issues related to TH in the SCI, some of them specific to the neonatal patient. Accurately establishing the diagnosis and its severity is crucial to redirect care for SCI and to indicate potential neuroprotective therapies. Considering the lack of therapeutic options, the extremely poor outcomes associated with acute SCI, and the extensive experience in safe use of whole-body cooling in newborn infants, we feel that moderate whole-body cooling should be offered as soon as possible after birth to the newborn infant with SCI.

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