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Intrauterine hypoxia (IH, sometimes called birth asphyxia) is an unchallenged cause of perinatal death. It is a nonspecific symptom of any late toxemia in pregnancy.
The perinatal brain injury occurring as a result of birth asphyxia, manifesting with-in 48 hours of birth, is a form of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. It is associated long term neurological deficit including cerebral palsy. Prognosis depends on the severity of brain damage of which the encephalopathy is a manifestation.
Treatment of infants suffering birth asphyxia by cooling is now known to be an effective therapy to reduce mortality and improve neurological outcome in survivors, and hypothermia therapy for neonatal encephalopathy begun within 6 hours of birth significantly increases the chance of normal survival in affected infants.
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Disability-adjusted life year for birth asphyxia and birth trauma per 100,000 inhabitants in 2002.
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no data less than 150 150-300 300-450 450-600 600-750 750-900 900-1050 1050-1200 1200-1350 1350-1500 1500-1750 more than 1750
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