Local skin injury as a complication of whole body cooling for perinatal asphyxia
- Gamze Demirel1,
- Istemi Han Celik1,
- Fuat Emre Canpolat1,
- Serife Suna Oguz1,
- Omer Erdeve1,
- Ugur Dilmen2
- 1Department of Neonatology, Zekai Tahir Burak Maternity Teaching Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
- 2Department of Pediatrics, Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey
- Correspondence to Gamze Demirel, Department of Neonatology, Zekai Tahir Burak Maternity Teaching Hospital, Ankara 06230, Turkey; kgamze{at}hotmail.com
- Received 9 February 2012
- Accepted 22 February 2012
- Published Online First 25 June 2012
A female infant was born at term weighing 3160 g by spontaneous vaginal delivery. Apgar scores were 1 and 3 at 1st and 5th min, respectively. The baby underwent cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Umblical artery pH was 6.9. She had Sarnat stage 2 encephalopathy. Therapeutic whole body hypothermia was induced soon after birth with a rectal temperature of 33–34°C, using a water-filled mattress (Tecotherm TecCom, Munich, …
