Neonatal neural rescue a clinical guide (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Scientific background -- Neurological outcome after perinatal asphyxia at term -- Molecular mechanisms of neonatal brain injury and neural rescue -- The discovery of hypothermic neural rescue therapy for perinatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy -- Clinical trials of hypothermic neural rescue -- Economic evaluation of hypothermic neural rescue -- Clinical neural rescue -- Challenges for parents and clinicians discussing neuroprotective treatments -- The pharmacology of hypothermia -- Selection of infants for hypothermic neural rescue -- Hypothermia during patient transport -- Whole body cooling for therapeutic hypothermia -- Selective head cooling -- Hypothermic neural rescue for neonatal encephalopathy in mid- and low-resource settings -- Cerebral function monitoring and EEG -- Magnetic resonance imaging in hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy and the effects of hypothermia -- Novel uses of hypothermia -- Neurological follow-up of infants treated with hypothermia -- Registry surveillance after neuroprotective treatment -- The future -- Novel neuroprotective therapies -- Combining hypothermia with other therapies for neonatal neuroprotection -- Biomarkers for studies of neuroprotection in infants with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy