Dr. John Murphy:

I expect the number of babies we get to access in time and treat will rise. The identification of babies who may suffer from brain damage from lack of oxygen will increase and we will be able to get to more of them and, hopefully, prevent damage occurring. Unfortunately, we cannot prevent damage for every such baby. That will take time, but a certain percentage of them can benefit. The national experience is very encouraging for this. Cooling has been the subject of a large number of trials and is probably the biggest breakthrough we have had in neonatology in the past 25 years.