A 5 day old male newborn delivered at 40 weeks gestation by emergency C-section due to fetal distress with Apgar scores of 5 and 6, at 1 and 5 minutes respectively, was noted to be hypotonic at birth with joint contractures. He required resuscitation and endotracheal intubation due to apnea at birth. On day 4 of life he developed tonic seizures and was treated with the anticonvulsant, phenobarb...

oligohydramnios is frequently used to identify at risk fetuses. the purpose of this study was to assess adverse perinatal outcomes in oligohydramnios. subjects comprised pregnant women diagnosed either with (590) or without (597) oligohydramnios who delivered after hospital admittance from 2000 to 2010 . data, including the resuscitation of newborn, apgar score at 5 min, nicu admission, death i...

appropriately trained according to their position and specialty.3 Basic life support training was held to be mandatory for all. The working party recommended that a resuscitation training officer be appointed in every acute hospital solely to ensure that training is implemented and cardiac arrests are regularly audited. It has been shown that cardiac arrest survival can be directly correlated w...

Pulse oximetry has emerged as a convenient and readily available tool for monitoring of resuscitation. This study was done to evaluate the ability of the pulse oximetry to record oxygen saturation of asphyxiated neonates as well to note serial changes in oxygen saturation during their resuscitation. The main outcome was time taken to reach 90% saturation as recorded by pulse oximeter. The other...