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Feeding infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy during therapeutic hypothermia

Journal of Perinatology volume 43, pages 124–127 (2023)Cite this article

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Gale C, Longford NT, Jeyakumaran D, Ougham K, Battersby C, Ojha S, et al. Feeding during neonatal therapeutic hypothermia, assessed using routinely collected National Neonatal Research Database data: a retrospective, UK population-based cohort study. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. 2021;5:408–416. [1].

A population-level retrospective cohort study.

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Ravikumar, C., Pandey, R. Feeding infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy during therapeutic hypothermia. J Perinatol 43, 124–127 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-022-01520-4

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