Electrographic seizures are associated with brain injury in newborns undergoing therapeutic hypothermia

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Shah, Divyen K ^a,b   Wusthoff, Courtney J ^c   Clarke, Paul ^d   Wyatt, John S ^e   Ramaiah, Sridhar M ^d   Dias, Ryan J ^a   Becher, Julie Clare ^f   Kapellou, Olga ^g   Boardman, James P ^f,h  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^g HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TISSUE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROGRAPHIC SEIZURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; SENTINEL EVENT;

IMAGING; MONITORING; NEONATOLOGY; NEUROLOGY;

ANTICONVULSANTS; APGAR SCORE; BRAIN INJURIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84898542790     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-305206     Document Type: Article

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