The influence of birth site on short-term outcomes of encephalopathic newborn infants treated with therapeutic hypothermia at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
Background: International consensus guidelines recommend that term or near-term newborns with moderate or severe hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) should be treated with induced hypothermia within 6 hours of birth, but many of the affected babies are born outside treatment centers. There are co...
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| Format: | Dissertation |
| Language: | English |
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University of Cape Town
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15738 |