ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM: A MAJOR CAUSE OF MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY

Asphyxia Neonatorum.

I have presented the material in three sections, the first concerns the antenatal events leading to foetal anoxia, the second deals with the management of labour, and the third discusses methods of treatment which may be applicable in domiciliary midwifery. I have quoted fairly extensively from the National Perinatal Mortality Survey (1961) carried out in 1958 under the auspices of the National...

Asphyxia Neonatorum

Hepatic profile in asphyxia neonatorum.

Perinatal asphyxia is one of the leading causes of neonatal mortality in India. In addition to hypoxic-ischemic brain injury and neurological deficits, there is evidence of multi-system insult (l). Hepatic dysfunction is caused by redistributing cardiac output away from nonvital viscera to the heart, brain and adrenal glands (2). The present study was carried out to determine the extent of live...

Asphyxia neonatorum due to a nasopharyngeal teratoma.

Although a nasopharyngeal teratoma occurs but rarely, it may be a cause of acute asphyxia in the newborn baby. The tumour is often readily amenable to surgical removal. Ehrich (1945) gives a comprehensive survey of the literature relating to teratoid parasites of the mouth. He refers to the earlier publications of Ahlfeld (1875), Arnold (1888) and Schwalbe (1907) and discusses their theories re...

Birth asphyxia: a major cause of early neonatal mortality in a Tanzanian rural hospital.

OBJECTIVE Early neonatal mortality within the first 24 hours contributes substantially to overall neonatal mortality rates. The definition of birth asphyxia (BA) is imprecise, and reliable cause-specific mortality data are limited; thus the estimated proportion of BA-related deaths globally remains questionable. The objective was to determine the presumed causes of neonatal death within the fir...