Patient Condition - Extracorporeal Life Support Organization

Patients with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) are at risk for abnormal pulmonary vasorelaxation and pulmonary hypertension (PPHN), which occurs in 25%.1 Whole body cooling (WBC) is standard of care for these infants, but the effect of cooling in patients with HIE who also require ECMO is not definitively known. ................
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