Therapeutic hypothermia as a neuroprotective strategy in newborns with perinatal asphyxia-case report.Background
 Two clinical cases of newborns with perinatal asphyxia submitted to therapeutic hypothermia and the follow-up of their motor development after hospital discharge have been reported.


 This retrospective case report study included two newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy due to perinatal asphyxia who received a hypothermia protocol at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).  The newborns were submitted to a 72-hour hypothermia protocol.  Therapeutic hypothermia may be a strategy to prevent neurologic sequelae in newborns with perinatal asphyxia, including cerebral palsy.
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