Effect of Whole-Body Cooling on Phenobarbital Control of Seizures in Neonates with HIE

Abstract

Forty-two infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) admitted to University of Alabama, Birmingham, from 1999 to 2007, received whole-body hypothermia and of these, 20 also received a single dose (40 mg/kg) of prophylactic phenobarbital.

Keywords

• nicu admission
• hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
• prophylactic phenobarbital