Abstract
The role of SEPs in motor prognosis of hypoxic–ischemic neonatal encephalopathy has been evaluated in pre-hypothermia era (Suppiej, 2010) but their role in babies treated with hypothermia has not been studied yet. We investigated motor outcome at 12 months of age in 38 children who suffered from hypoxic–ischemic neonatal encephalopathy and were treated with hypothermia at the NICU of the Paediatric University Hospital of Padua. All performed median nerve SEPs in the neonatal period, traces were scored as bilaterally present (group1) or as bilaterally/unilaterally absent (group2) cortical N20 response. At follow up 4/38 children had the diagnosis of cerebral palsy (all of them had bilaterally absent cortical SEP). Of the remaining 34, 7 had abnormal (
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