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. 2021 Jun 5;21:261. doi: 10.1186/s12887-021-02737-6

Table 3.

Reasons for Not Providing Therapeutic Hypothermia

Reasons, n (%) Total hospital General hospital Maternity and infant hospital Children’s hospital
n = 126 n = 94 n = 24 n = 8
Reduction of HIE cases 49 (38.9) 34 (36.2) 12 (50.0) 3 (37.5)
High cost of cooling devices 39 (31.0) 29 (30.9) 7 (29.2) 3 (37.5)
Lack of training in TH 33 (26.2) 26 (27.7) 5 (20.8) 2 (25.0)
Concerns about the safety of TH 5 (4.0) 5 (5.3) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)

Abbreviation: HIE Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, TH Therapeutic hypothermia