Late onset oxygen requirement following neonatal therapeutic hypothermia

Abstract

Neonatal encephalopathy (NE) affects 1 to 3/1000 term live births each year in developed countries and can lead to death and permanent neurological deficits, such as cerebral palsy and cognitive deficits. 1 Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is now the standard of care to reduce death and disabilities for infants with moderate to severe NE. 2,3 Infants with NE often require respiratory support for either respiratory morbidities or neurological complications such as reduced consciousness, seizure burden and/or poor respiratory effort. 4-9

Highlights in this issue

“…This questions whether SpO 2 measurements should guide oxygen titration in neonates. In another paper, El‐Dib et al 6 explore late‐onset oxygen requirements following neonatal therapeutic hypothermia.

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