Table 2.

Clinical characteristics of patients included in the study

Characteristic	Median [IQR]
Patients (n)	17
Gestational age (weeks)	39.5 [1]
Birthweight (kg)	3.4 [0.5]
Height (cm)	54.1 [3]
Age at start of cooling (h)	2.1 [4.8]
Lactate dehydrogenase (U/L)	1520 [746]
Alanine aminotransferase (U/L)	63.8 [44.8]
Thompson score	9.5 [9]
Therapeutic hypothermia (n [%])	13 [76.5]
Inotropes (n [%])	8 [47.1]

IQR interquartile range, absolute difference between Q3 and Q1