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Professor Alistair Gunn, Departments of Physiology and Paediatrics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Therapeutic hypothermia is a dream revisited, first suggested in antiquity (1). The possibility that it could improve recovery after a period of hypoxia-ischemia at birth was first tested in small uncontrolled studies in the 1950s and 1960s (2). In those first […]

Robert White, MD, Director, Regional Newborn Program, Beacon Children’s Hospital (South Bend, Ind.), Newborn Brain Society – Education Committee Babies enter the NICU during life’s most active stage of brain growth and learning which forces this crucial development to occur, for better or worse, in an environment that is far removed from the normal in

Gabriel Variane, MD, Founder of PBSF – Protecting Brains & Saving Futures Brazil counts with almost 3 million live births per year, from those, it is estimated 15-20 thousand infants with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE), what accounts for approximately 2 infants with HIE per hour. Like any developing country, the resources available for neonatal care