Neurological outcomes at 18 months of age after moderate hypothermia for perinatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy: synthesis and meta-analysis of trial data

David Edwards, A.; Brocklehurst, Peter; J. Gunn, Alistair; L. Halliday, Henry; Juszczak, Edmund; I. Levene, Malcolm; Strohm, Brenda; Thoresen, Marianne; Whitelaw, Andrew; Azzopardi, Denis

doi:10.1136/bmj.c363

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Neurological outcomes at 18 months of age after moderate hypothermia for perinatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy: synthesis and meta-analysis of trial data

Published in BMJ • Feb 9, 2010

Authors:

A. David Edwards

Peter Brocklehurst

Alistair J. Gunn

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether moderate hypothermia after hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy in neonates improves survival and neurological outcome at 18 months of age. DESIGN: A meta-analysis was performed using a fixed effect model. Risk ratios, risk difference, and number needed to treat, plus 95%...

Subject

Medicine

Confidence interval

Hypothermia

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