Prognosis of Neonatal Asphyxia

Evaluation and prognosis of neonates with asphyxia treated by hypothermia

Background: Asphyxia is a perinatal accident with a high mortality rate, therapeutic hypothermia in both head or whole body was suggested as effective therapeutic methods. In this study, we compare these methods in neonates with asphyxia.Methods and Materials: 16 neonates with asphyxia in two hospitals including Alzahra(head hypothermia) and Taleghani hospital (total body hypothermia) went unde...

Short-term prognosis of definitive neonatal infection

Therapeutic hypothermia in neonatal asphyxia

Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy is a serious condition affecting newborn infants which can result in death and disability. There is now strong clinical evidence that moderate post-asphyxial total body cooling or hypothermia in full term neonates results in long-term neuroprotection, allowing us to proclaim this innovative therapy as "standard of care." The treatment is a time-critical emergency...

Foetal distress and neonatal asphyxia.

PART I WITH improvements in maternal obstetric management, it is possible to turn increasingly to the care of the child, especially throughout labour and in the immediate postnatal period, when the child is at greatest risk. Though the signs considered to indicate foetal distress have been recognized for many years, it is, however, also necessary to assess the urgency and the severity of the th...

Profound Neonatal and Infantile Asphyxia

Despite recent advances in obstetrics and neonatal intensive care, perinatal asphyxia remains a major cause of long-term neurologic sequelae in childhood (1, 2). Improvements in the resolution of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MR) that have occurred in recent years permit more accurate localization and quantification of hypoxic-ischemic cerebral injury, which, in turn,...