It was conducted by a leading Russian neonatologist, head of the neonatal intensive care unit of the Children's City Clinical Hospital No. 8 in Chelyabinsk and a Candidate of Medicine Andrey Petrovich Averin. The training seminar on therapeutic hypothermia in Almaty is held as part of the AYALA Academy project with the support of Chevron Company.

Reducing infant mortality and disability in Kazakhstan is one of the most important priorities of the activity of AYALA Charity Foundation. Over 12 years, the foundation has been implementing a number of projects to solve this problem.

Among them is the organization of practical seminars for neonatologists. This week, a 3-day seminar “General Issues of Therapeutic Hypothermia” was held in Almaty.

The seminar was attended by more than 50 neonatologists of city and regional perinatal centers and maternity hospitals from Atyrau, Aktobe, Shymkent, Taraz, Semey, Almaty and Almaty region.

In everyday practice, they are confronted with various severe pathologies of newborns. These include lesions of the central nervous system, which are one of the main causes of death of newborns in our country. In 70% of cases, this is due to their hypoxia, which at birth triggers a cascade of pathological physiological processes that cause the death of brain cells of a newborn. In the worst case this leads to death or severe disability of children.

Therapeutic hypothermia is the main physical (non-drug) method of protecting the brain of newborns from the perspective of the evidence-based medicine. Within the framework of the “General Issues of Therapeutic Hypothermia” seminar, Andrey Petrovich Averin shared with his Kazakhstani colleagues information and practical experience in such issues as non-invasive monitoring in intensive neonatology, respiratory support in neonatology, thermal protection of newborns, as well as new approaches in intensive neonatology that will be actively introduced worldwide in 2020.

In addition, with the active work of the foundation, a mandatory purchase of hypothermia equipment was included in the Action Plan to reduce infant mortality in Kazakhstan. With the support of major sponsors, the foundation purchased and transferred 3 hypothermia devices to perinatal centers, 2 more of such devices are being prepared for installation in Turkestan and Atyra

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