CASES OF ASPHYXIA.

Birth asphyxia--analysis of 235 cases.

OBJECTIVE To look for risk factors leading to birth asphyxia in new borns admitted in a tertiary care unit STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING Neonatal Unit of National Institute of Child Health, Karachi from 1st January, 2001 to 31st August, 2001. PATIENTS AND METHODS Records of 235 new borns admitted with birth asphyxia during this period were analyzed. Variables studied includ...

Positional asphyxia: reflection on 2 cases.

Positional asphyxia, a fatal condition arising because of the adoption of particular body positions, causing mechanical interference with pulmonary ventilation, can occur in various circumstances that are likely to come under the observation of the specialist in legal medicine (work, car accidents, torture, kidnapping, etc.). It is difficult to diagnose the cause of death in such cases because ...

Birth asphyxia.

Induced hypothermia in comatose survivors of asphyxia: a case series of 14 consecutive cases.

BACKGROUND Induced hypothermia is widely used for comatose survivors of cardiac arrest. Other causes of hypoxic brain injury carry a poor prognosis when treated using traditional methods. At our hospital, hypothermia has also been used for the management of all comatose survivors of asphyxiation. The aim of the present study was to report the results of the management of these patients. METHO...

Ultrasonographic Evaluation of the Neonatal Brain in Cases of Birth Asphyxia

INTRODUCTION The manifestations of hypoxic and ischemic injury to the brain in a developing foetus in utero or during the birth process consist of a pattern of abnormal neurological signs occurring in sequence over a period of the first few days of life. This is known as hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) [1]. HIE occurs in about 25% infants following severe birth asphyxia [2]. A clinical st...