Time to adopt cooling for neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy: Response to a previous commentary

Pediatrics

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 616-618

  Penman, Max ^a,b,d   Shah, Prakesh ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREPTOKINASE;

BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COOLING; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NOTE; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; WHOLE BODY HYPOTHERMIA; ADAPTATION; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CRYOANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; ONTARIO; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40949148195     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-3497     Document Type: Note

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