Hypothermia for encephalopathy in low-income and middle-income countries: feasibility of whole-body cooling using a low-cost servo-controlled device

• Main Authors: Vânia Oliveira (Author), Jaya Raman Kumutha (Author), Narayanan E (Author), Jagadish Somanna (Author), Naveen Benkappa (Author), Prathik Bandya (Author), Manigandan Chandrasekeran (Author), Ravi Swamy (Author), Jayashree Mondkar (Author), Kapil Dewang (Author), Swati Manerkar (Author), Mangalabharathi Sundaram (Author), Kamalaratnam Chinathambi (Author), Shruti Bharadwaj (Author), Vishnu Bhat (Author), Vijayakumar Madhava (Author), Mohandas Nair (Author), Peter James Lally (Author), Paolo Montaldo (Author), Gaurav Atreja (Author), Josephine Mendoza (Author), Paul Bassett (Author), Siddarth Ramji (Author), Seetha Shankaran (Author), Sudhin Thayyil (Author), Jethro Herberg (Author), Peter J Lally (Author), Jithangi Wanigasinghe (Author), Ashish Jain (Author), Mani Chandrasekaran (Author), Arjun Chandra Dey (Author), Sanjoy Kumer Dey (Author), Mohammed Tariqul Islam (Author), Ismat Jahan (Author), Mohammed Abdul Mannan (Author), Sadeka Chowdhury Moni (Author), Kamrul Hasan Shabuj (Author), Mohammod Shahidullah (Author), Mohammed Nazrul Islam (Author), Mst Nazmun Nahar (Author), Swapnil Bhiskar (Author), Rema Chandramohan (Author), Chinnathambi Kamalaratnam (Author), Kumutha Kumaraswami (Author), Sundaram Mangalabharathi (Author), Monica Sebastian (Author), Padmesh Vadekepad (Author), Usha Kantharajanna (Author), Sowmya Krishnappa (Author), Jagdish Somanna (Author), Niranjan Hunsanhalli Shivanna (Author), Arasar Seeralar (Author), Vinayagam Prakash (Author), Mythilli Babu (Author), Mohamed Sajjid (Author), Babu Peter Sathyanathan (Author), R Ravi (Author), Shruthi Bharadwaj (Author), Vishnu Bhatt (Author), Vijaykumar Madhavan (Author), Kalpani Chathurangika (Author), Sanjeewa Munasinghe (Author), Radika Karunaratne Shaman rajindrajith (Author), Ranmali Rodrigo (Author), Samanmali Sumanasena (Author), Radhika Ajit (Author), Sobha Kumar (Author), Ashwathy Nair (Author)
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• Published: BMJ Publishing Group, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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Design We recruited babies with moderate or severe hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (aged <6 hours) admitted to public sector tertiary neonatal units in India over a 28-month period. We administered whole-body cooling (set core temperature 33.5°C) using a servo-controlled device for 72 hours, fol...