Abbot R Laptook, Seetha Shankaran, Jon E Tyson, Breda Munoz, Edward F Bell, Ronald N Goldberg, Nehal A Parikh, Namasivayam Ambalavanan, Claudia Pedroza, Athina Pappas, Abhik Das, Aasma S Chaudhary, Richard A Ehrenkranz, Angelita M Hensman, Krisa P Van Meurs, Lina F Chalak, Amir M Khan, Shannon E G Hamrick, Gregory M Sokol, Michele C Walsh, Brenda B Poindexter, Roger G Faix, Kristi L Watterberg, Ivan D Frantz, Ronnie Guillet, Uday Devaskar, William E Truog, Valerie Y Chock, Myra H Wyckoff, Elisabeth C McGowan, David P Carlton, Heidi M Harmon, Jane E Brumbaugh, C Michael Cotten, Pablo J Sánchez, Anna Maria Hibbs, Rosemary D Higgins
IMPORTANCE: Hypothermia initiated at less than 6 hours after birth reduces death or disability for infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy at 36 weeks' or later gestation. To our knowledge, hypothermia trials have not been performed in infants presenting after 6 hours. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the probability that hypothermia initiated at 6 to 24 hours after birth reduces the risk of death or disability at 18 months among infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy...
October 24, 2017: JAMA