Moving the Needle in Low-Resource Settings: Is Hypothermia a Friend or a Foe?

Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in low resource settings is associated with low occurrence of perinatal sentinel events, growth restriction, short birth depression, early seizure onset, white matter injury, and non-acute hypoxia on whole genome expression profile suggesting that intra-partum hypoxia might be occurring from a normal or augmented labor process in an already compromised fetus. Induced hypothermia increases mortality and does not reduce brain injury. Strict adherence to the updated National Neonatology forum guidelines is essential to prevent harm from induced hypothermia in low resource settings.

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Disclosure The authors acknowledge funding from the National Insititute of Health and Care Reseaerch (NIHR), UK.