Table 1. Summary of Initial Clinical Trials; Seminal Work From 3 Primary Research Teams Citation Sample Size/Inclusion Criteria Method/Duration of Cooling Follow-up Findings 27 234 term infants ...

For years, the university had considered hypothermia an acceptable means of anesthesia for neonatal rats and mice less than one week of age. This technique was used to anesthetize pups prior to ...

The study involved 24 babies with moderate to severe neonatal encephalopathy who received therapeutic hypothermia but still had brain damage. Of this group, eight babies received sildenafil ...

Great Eastern University's policy of using the USDA's pain and distress classifications for both USDA-regulated and non-USDA-regulated species is best practice and is widely used; however, there ...

Medical research on hypothermia and cold injuries is always changing knowledge and treatment. When going into cold conditions it is your responsibility to learn the latest information. The material ...

The percentage of infants from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) experiencing hypothermia upon operating room (OR) arrival and at any point during the operation decreased from 48.7% to 6.4% ...

Internationally recognized authorities give practical advice, drawn from personal experience, on how to deliver hypothermia in the neonatal intensive care unit. A valuable addition to any neonatal ...

One of the most common causes of adverse neurological disabilities in newborns is neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is the standard therapy, but it is not ...

1 Physicians must rapidly evaluate the infant for further signs of neonatal encephalopathy (NE), a heterogeneous neurological dysfunction syndrome often caused by brain injury, to determine if they ...

The NICU at Cardinal Glennon admits and manages neonates with a wide variety of single and multi-system disease. Advanced management techniques include in-unit ECMO, dialysis, therapeutic hypothermia, ...

Hypothermia is when a person’s body temperature gets so low that they have reduced circulation of blood around the body, particularly to their skin. This is why the person’s skin will feel cold to ...

The nurse must be aware that hypothermia will induce changes in the baseline parameters of vital signs, and therefore, assessment parameters are adjusted accordingly. The most common change seen ...