Therapeutic Hypothermia in Asphyxiated Neonates: Experience from Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of University Hospital of Marrakech

Table 3

Complications during hospitalization.

	Protocol group   %	Control group   %	value
Bradycardia <90/min	17 (90)	2 (10)	S
Thrombocytopenia	5 (26,3)	7 (37)	NS
Hepatic cytolysis	7 (36,8)	11 (57)	NS
Acidosis	4 (21)	7 (37)	NS
Hyperkalemia	7 (36,8)	3 (15)	NS
Renal failure	8 (42)	13 (68)	NS
PAH	0	6 (31)	S
Head edema	1	0	—
Nosocomial infection	5 (26,3)	4 (21)	NS

S: significant.
PAH: pulmonary arterial hypertension.