WSU/DMC physician publishes breakthrough study on benefits over time of "cooling blanket" treatment on oxygen-deprived newborns After more than 10 years of study, investigators in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Neonatal Research Network led by a pediatric researcher at Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center (DMC) have proven an effective way to significantly reduce death and physical and mental disability caused by reduction in oxygen and blood flow to the brain at birth. Scheduled to publish May 31 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the study findings will have a "major impact" on the treatment of brain injury among infants born at term with this condition, according to the investigators who conducted the study. "I don't think there's any doubt that these findings will have a significant impact on the medical treatment of newborns who experience oxygen deprivation at birth," said Dr. Seetha Shankaran, Wayne State University professor of pediatrics and division director of neonatal/perinatal medicine for the DMC Children's Hospital of Michigan and DMC Hutzel Women's Hospital. The study was assembled by Shankaran, the lead investigator, along with senior study author Rosemary D. Higgins, M.D., program scientist for the NICHD Neonatal Research Network (NRN) and 25 other researchers in the NICHD NRN. "This is a very hopeful breakthrough for all of us who work in the field of neonatal medicine," added Shankaran, who has led the wide-ranging study since its start in 2000.

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