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Thanks for sharing, looking forward to the results!

I am one of the co-site PI's on a RCT called PAEAN (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03079167). It is a multi centre, RCT looking at the use of EPO in babies with moderate or severe HIE that receiving therapeutic hypothermia. We are approximately 2/3 through recruiting for this study and hopefully these results can answer your question! Sorry, no answers but thought I would share that!  

In Linköping we have developed a structure on how to do this in deliveryroom on ELBW less than GW28. It works pretty well if you manage to deal well with the logistic. Receive on the foot-end of deliverybed between the legs of the mother, put the baby in a nest covered by plastic, using a mobile Neopuff with humidified warm gas, Starting with CPAP only awaiting the respond of heartrate and spontaneous breathing, ventilating only if bradycardia, delayed cordclamping. Incubator Close to the bed, connected to mobile CPAP/Ventilator. If intubation immediate Surfactant instillation. We have planned to enhance it into all Babies less than GW32 (33?). Working on a video on it. Apart from a mobile neopuff, an incubator in Place and a mobile CPAP/ventilator you don´t need any extra equippment. But a well trained team and clear logistic is crucial  (protocol). /Per

Currently we never cut the ETT, as per the new ventilator technology will enable us to read all necessary parameters required to monitor our ventilation settings and the baby adaptation to MV. 

We used to cut and stop because the repositioned problems. Never cut in HFO.