Journal Article

Point of care magnetic resonance neonatal neuroimaging applications and early imaging in infants under active therapeutic hypothermia: a perspective

Ersen, Yasemin, Inder, Terrie, Roychaudhuri, Sriya, El-Dib, Mohamed

2024

Overview

As care of the most vulnerable infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) evolves, improved and real-time understanding of brain health becomes key. The availability of an in-NICU magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner provides unique options to bedside care providers and researchers. We present our perspective on the 1-Tesla MRI unit in our NICU and its utilities and applications both in the clinical and research fields. We also discuss our experience with early and serial MRI in a cohort of infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy while undergoing therapeutic hypothermia, using a compatible cooling blanket and monitoring apparatus with special insight into the planning and organization between providers, and parental perspectives around early, detailed imaging.

• Publisher: Nature Publishing Group US,Nature Publishing Group
• Subject: 59/57 / 692/308/53/2422 / 692/700/1421 / Brain - diagnostic imaging / Brain damage / Brain health / Early experience / Encephalopathy / Humans / Hypothermia / Hypothermia, Induced - methods / Hypoxia / Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain - diagnostic imaging / Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain - therapy / Infant, Newborn / Infants / Intensive care / Intensive Care Units, Neonatal / Ischemia / Magnetic resonance imaging / Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods / Medical imaging / Medicine / Medicine & Public Health / Neonatal care / Neonates / Neuroimaging / Neuroimaging - methods / Newborn babies / Pediatric Surgery / Pediatrics / Perspective / Point-of-Care Systems / Real time