Birth asphyxia at a district hospital in Kigali, Rwanda

Simplified assessment of asphyxia at birth.

A simplified clinical method of assessment of the baby soon after birth was evaluated and compared with the cord blood pH and 1 min Apgar score. The assessment recorded cry, respiration, colour, activity, reflex response, and cord pulsation. Sixty-two neonates born at term by normal vaginal delivery with 1 min Apgar score of 0-6 (n = 31) and 7-10 (n = 31) were studied. Linear correlation coeffi...

Birth asphyxia.

Birth Asphyxia among Term Neonates at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in Accra

The psychological and emotional stress that is brought to bear on the woman, the couple or the family when a perinatal mortality occurs is unimaginable. And similarly care-givers go through a lot of emotional stress when patients they have cared for prenatally lose their babies, though in the developing world this so often happens to the extent that care-givers soon get accustomed to perinatal ...

[Water Birth: experience at a university clinic and a district hospital in Austria].

PURPOSE AND METHODS In a retrospective case-control study, 265 water deliveries (with cephalic presentation) carried out at an Austrian university clinic and a district hospital were compared with a group of spontaneous births (without any surgical intervention) matched for age, gestational age and parity regarding the most important fetal and maternal obstetric parameters. RESULTS 4.3% of al...

Risk Factors Associated with Birth Asphyxia in Rural District Matiari, Pakistan: A Case Control Study

Background: During the past two decades there has been a sustained decline in child mortality; however, neonatal mortality has remained stagnant. Each year approximately 4 million babies are born asphyxiated resulting in 2 million neonatal deaths and intrapartum stillbirths. Almost all neonatal deaths occur in developing countries, where the majority is delivered at homes with negligible antena...