Does late therapeutic hypothermia reduce risk of death or disability?
Does late therapeutic hypothermia reduce risk of death or disability?
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晚期低温治疗是否会降低死亡或残疾的风险?
DOI:
10.1111/apa.14334
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发表时间:
2018
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通讯作者:
Dietz,RobertM
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作者:
Bourque,StephanieL;Dietz,RobertM
Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), also known as neonatal encephalopathy, affects an estimated 1-3 term infants per 1000 live births and leads to significant long-term morbidity and mortality (1). Several clinical trials evaluating the use of therapeutic hypothermia (TH), cooling the core body temperature to 33-34 C for 72 hours, initiated within 6 hours of birth, have demonstrated benefit with decreased moderate-severe disability or death at 18-22 months (2). As such, TH for infants with HIE has become standard of care. While animal studies have demonstrated superior treatment effect with early cooling initiated prior to 6 hours of age (3), not all eligible infants undergo initiation of TH within this ideal timeframe.This randomized clinical trial by Laptook and colleagues enrolled infants who met clinical or laboratory criteria for TH, but who were between 6 and 24 hours of age at time of randomization (4). Infants underwent whole body cooling to a goal core temperature of 33.5 C (range 33-34 C) for 96 hours. This longer cooling time, compared to the standard 72 hours, was chosen due to previous data suggesting that longer hypothermia was necessary for neuroprotection, although this has been recently refuted (5). The results of this study suggest that the benefit of beginning hypothermia> 6 hours of age is much less than starting it earlier which is supported by preclinical data. However, despite most of the patients being> 12 hours of age at randomization, there was still a small benefit to TH, indicated by Bayesian analysis, despite an increased seizure burden in the TH group at randomization. Combined with the lack of increased serious in-hospital adverse effects in the treatment