week 5 part 2 Flashcards
What is Perinatal asphyxia (PA) characterised by?
Impairment of exchange of respiratory gases (oxygen and carbon dioxide)
What does PA result in?
Hypoxia
Hypercapnia
What is the incidence of PA?
1 to 6 per 1,000 live full-term births
What plays a role in the way in which the baby positions themselves to come out in the best way?
- Condition of the uterus
2. Condition of the mother
Define Hypoxia
Diminished amount of oxygen in the blood supply
Define cerebral ischemia
Diminished amount of blood perfusing the brain
What is HIE?
Encephalopathy due to hypoxia and cerebral ischaemia
Resulting in death or subsequent cerebral palsy
What are babies able to sustain?
withstand stress of labour
When can you only call those who have hypoxic ischaemic Encephalopathy?
- Diminished amount of oxygen
- Have evidence of being affected by lack of perfusion
- The baby should have encephalopathy because it has both hypoxia and cerebral ischemia
What are the History/Etiology/Risk Factors of PA?
- Pre-conceptual
- Antepartum
- Intra partum
What is example of Pre-conceptual?
- IDDM
- Maternal medical illness
- Sepsis
What is Antepartum?
- Infection
- IUGR
- Pre-eclampsia
- APH
What is an example of Intra-partum?
- Breech
- Shoulder dystocia
- cord prolapse
- Cord around the neck
- Uterine rupture
what is the consequence of cord tighten around the neck?
Interrupts blood flow and therefore get acidosis with hypoxia or hypercapnia
What is HIE?
major cause of death and disability in a well grown term baby
Where is HIE seen?
around 2-3 per 1000 live births in developed countries
What does HIE account for?
6% neonatal deaths and a combined mortality/morbidity of around 23% developed countries
What is the criteria for HIE?
- Need for prolonged resuscitation beyond 10 minutes after birth
- Perinatal acidosis in a blood gas in the first hour with PH < 7.0
Base deficit > 16mmol/L
- High lactate
- APGAR score of < 5 at 10 mins
- Abnormal neurological examination or presence of seizures
What is the APGAR score?
Devised by DR Virginia Apgar in 1952 and comprises 5 components
What are the 5 components of APGAR score?
- Appearance
- Pulse rate
- Grimace or reflexes
- Activity or muscle tone
- Respiration
What will recover with normal neurological examination?
APGAR score of > 7 at 5 minutes
What do babies with very poor score of 0-3 at 5 minutes have?
High chance of death/disability
20% of those with an APGAR score of 0 at 10 minutes
still survive with no disability at 6-7 years
What are the 5 characteristic of APGAR score
- Appearance
- Pulse
- Grimace
- Activity
- Respiration