Background: Asphyxia is the second most common cause of neonatal death after babies with low birth weight (LBW). The factors that can asphyxia include preeclampsia, premature birth, prenatal anemia, antepartum bleeding and rupture membranes. Purpose: This study aimed to determine main causative associated incidence neonatorum at RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang in 2021. Methods: research was a quantit...

OBJECTIVE The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 4 million children are born with asphyxia every year, of which 1 million die and an equal number survive with severe neurologic sequelae. The purpose of this study was to identify the risk factors of birth asphyxia and the hospital outcome of affected neonates. MATERIALS & METHODS This study was a prospective case-control study on t...

Birth asphyxia may predispose to haemostatic failure.The objective of this study was to evaluate coagulation profile of babies with birth asphyxia and correlate these values with their clinical characteristics. Clinico-laboratory characteristics and coagulation profiles of 41 consecutive full term babies who had birth asphyxia were evaluated. Their coagulation profiles were compared to another ...

Continuous environmental stimulation induced by exposure to enriched environment (EE) has yielded cognitive benefits in different models of brain injury. Perinatal asphyxia results from a lack of oxygen supply to the fetus and is associated with long-lasting neurological deficits. However, the effects of EE in middle-aged rats suffering perinatal asphyxia are unknown. Therefore, the aim of the ...

OBJECTIVE: To review the relationship between cerebral palsy and the birth process. DATA SOURCES: Medline and non-Medline literature search and personal experience. STUDY SELECTION: Articles that commented on the routinely used markers of foetal distress, such as abnormal foetal heart rate, meconium-stained liquor, and foetal acidosis. DATA EXTRACTION: Data were extracted and reviewed independe...

objective: asphyxia  is  a  major  cause  of  acute  mortality  and  chronic  neurologic  disability  in  neonates. we sought to  define  the  predictive  values  of  serum  concentrations  of  interleukin-1β  in  newborns  with perinatal asphyxia to see if there is a relation between interleukin-1β (il-1β) levels to the short term neurological deficit.  methods: this was a prospective (case-co...

About four million newborn children die annually. Almost one quarter (23%) of these deaths are caused by perinatal asphyxia, most of them in developing countries [1-3]. The clinical signs following perinatal asphyxia have been called hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). HIE occurs in 1 to 3 per 1,000 live births in high income countries, and up to 20 per 1,000 live births in low and middle-in...

BACKGROUND Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE) remains a problem of great concern worldwide especially in developing countries. The occurrence of a neurological syndrome can be an indicator of insult to the brain. We aimed to determine the prevalence, HIE proportions, neurological signs and early outcomes of newborns that developed birth asphyxia at KCMC Tanzania. METHODS A prospective stud...

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...