Outcomes of Head Cooling for Neonatal Encephalopathy

Abstract

The role of possible clinical factors that might influence the efficacy of treatment with delayed head cooling and mild systemic hypothermia for neonatal encephalopathy was determined in a total of 218 term infants treated at University College, London, UK; University of Auckland, New Zealand; and other centers in the UK, USA, and Canada.

Keywords

• head cooling
• neonatal encephalopathy
• pyrexia