The role of sedation is to decrease excess activity that could elevate the temperature of the body, interfering with ... control symptoms in patients with HIE and showed favorable outcomes ...

The role of diffusion MRI at birth will become more important in the critical decision to cool going forward to diagnose babies with mild neonatal encephalopathy with evidence of hypoxic damage.” ...

All surviving infants had later brain MRI. The composite primary outcome of HIE-related neonatal death, and MRI abnormalities consistent with hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, were compared between ...

The infant is also at risk for subcutaneous fat necrosis (SCFN) as a result of asphyxia, a phenomenon seen before cooling was instituted ... profound hypoxemia. The body's blood is shunted ...