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BRAIN SCIENCES
Volume 12, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12081009
Keywords
traumatic brain injury; hypothermia; children; meta-analysis
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- Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology [2021YFS0150]
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Hypothermia therapy may improve the outcome scores of children with traumatic brain injury (TBI), but it does not significantly improve the incidence of complications, intracranial pressure, mortality rate, and length of stay.
Hypothermia therapy is a promising therapeutic strategy for traumatic brain injury (TBI); however, some trials have shown that hypothermia therapy has a negative effect on patients with TBI. The treatment of hypothermia in children with TBI remains controversial. We conducted a search of six online databases to validate the literature on comparing hypothermia with normal therapy for children with TBI. Eight randomized controlled trials (514 patients) were included. The meta-analysis indicated that hypothermia therapy may increase the Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) scores. However, in terms of improving the rate of complications, intracranial pressure (ICP), mortality, cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP), and length of stay both in hospital as well as pediatric ICU, the difference was not statistically significant. Hypothermia therapy may have clinical advantages in improving the GOS scores in children with TBI compared with normothermic therapy, but hypothermia therapy may have no benefit in improving the incidence of complications, ICP, mortality, CPP, and length of stay both in pediatric ICU as well as hospital. The decision to implement hypothermia therapy for children with TBI depends on the advantages and disadvantages from many aspects and these must be considered comprehensively.
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