Therapeutic Hypothermia for Neonatal Encephalopathy in Indian Neonatal Units: A Survey of National Practices

Manigandan Chandrasekaran1, Ravi Swamy, Siddarth Ramji

  • 1Centre for Perinatal Neuroscience, Department of Pediatrics, Imperial College London, UK; #Department of Neonatology, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India; and $Department of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine, Wayne State University, USA. s.thayyil@imperial.ac.uk.

Indian Pediatrics
|December 9, 2017
PubMed

This cross-sectional web-based survey suggests that cooling therapy is offered as standard of care for babies with neonatal encephalopathy in 10/25 (40%) of public and 37/68 (51%) of private level 2 or 3 neonatal units in India. 25 (53%) used locally improvised cooling methods, and the cooling practices differed from established protocols in high-income countries.