Changes in the treatment and outcomes of different severities of neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in California: a retrospective cohort study
摘要
Evaluate the changes in management and outcomes of Californian infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).
Study designInfants with HIE were identified from a California administrative birth cohort using ICD codes and divided into two epochs, Epoch 1 (2010–2015) and Epoch 2 (2016–2019). Risk ratios (RR) for induced hypothermia (IH) in each epoch and their outcomes were calculated using log-linear regression.
ResultsIn this cohort, 4779 infants with HIE were identified. Incidence of HIE in California increased yearly from 0.5/1000 California births to a peak of 1.5/1000 births in 2018. The use of IH in infants with mild HIE increased in Epoch 2 compared to Epoch 1. There was no significant difference in outcomes between epochs for infants with mild HIE that received IH including no difference in neonatal seizures.
ConclusionSignificantly more infants with mild HIE received IH since 2015 in California, but no significant difference in outcomes.