Whole-body hypothermia within hours of birth failed to improve outcomes in preterm infants less than 36 weeks' gestational age with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Death or moderate or severe ...

The treatment, sometimes used after cardiac arrest, may be beneficial. Since the novel coronavirus caught the world's attention in December 2019, doctors have been trying to determine how the virus ...

Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is one of the leading causes of newborn mortality and morbidity worldwide, and lowering the baby’s body temperature—called therapeutic hypothermia—is often used ...

Neonatal encephalopathy, a condition resulting from perinatal asphyxia, occurs in 2.0–6.0 of every 1000 live births. Without treatment, prognosis is poor and resulting complications such as ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Therapeutic hypothermia is frequently recommended for infants but mostly ineffective in premature newborns. “We ...

Therapeutic hypothermia, the only evidence-based treatment for newborns born with neonatal encephalopathy (NE) at or after 36 weeks, is not effective for reducing death or moderate/severe disability ...

Therapeutic hypothermia (controlled cooling of core body temperature) is recommended in guidelines for comatose adults after witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. However, new data from the ...

In patients receiving therapeutic hypothermia after suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, those who were cooled below 31 degrees Celsius (about 88 degrees Fahrenheit) for 24 hours showed no ...

Last year, researchers at Yale made the news when they revitalized the brains of 32 pigs by cooling them down. That is, they revived certain biological functions in the brains of 32 pigs 4 hours after ...

There are 530,000 cardiac arrests in America every year, putting patients at risk for permanent brain damage and death. Researchers from the University of Colorado are working on a new treatment, ...

To the Editor: Moler et al. (May 14 issue) 1 report that in comatose children who survived out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, therapeutic hypothermia did not confer a significant benefit in survival with ...