Asphyxia

Better access to cool caps improves outcomes, lowers cost of treating asphyxia in newborns

BOSTON, Jan. 7, 2008 When newborns suffering from a form of asphyxia at birth have better access to head cooling devices, fewer will face a lifetime of debilitating and costly health complications, according to researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). The findings, which ap...

Cooling treatment for newborn asphyxia

Approximately 1 in 500 babies suffer from asphyxia, which can lead to brain injury, multiple disabilities or even death in severe cases. Around 25 per cent of babies who suffer from a moderate lack of oxygen at birth will develop cerebral palsy.// There are currently no effective treatments to redu...

While you were sleeping

...le-aged men, with around three percent going on to experience a severe form of the condition characterised by extended pauses in breathing, repetitive asphyxia and sleep fragmentation. Children with enlarged tonsils and adenoids are also affected, raising concerns of long-term cognitive damage. Professo...

Sixty Percent of Americans Cannot Name Top Killers of Kids

...arely face -- dehydration from diarrhea, pneumonia, vaccine-preventable diseases such as tetanus and measles, and neonatal complications such as birth asphyxia and sepsis," states David Oot, Associate Vice-President of Health, Save the Children. "Two-thirds of these deaths could be prevented with basic low-co...

Brain Defect boy Compensated for Medical Error

...my baby to the Government Medical College Hospital. After a lot of checkups we were told that my son's brain cells have been damaged because of breath asphyxia caused due to the delay in delivery," said Thomas, a bank manager. After 45 days at the government hospital, Thomas and Geetha returned with the...

Government Hospital’s Poor Functioning Claims Lives Of 138 Infant

... The team observed that early detection of fetal distress and proper neonatal resuscitation could have prevented many of the deaths caused by birth asphyxia and that facilities for investigation were not utilized nor expert opinion sought in most cases. About 800 children, till the age of 12, are adm...

Whole-body hypothermia reduces risk of death in Encephalopathy in infants

... Among infants, hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy due to acute perinatal asphyxia remains an important cause of neurodevelopmental deficits in childhood//. Infants with moderate encephalopathy have a 10% risk of death, and those...

Night borns' risk

...ths were more serious - a problem which became worse in the 1990s. Between 1990 and 1995, there was a 60% increase in the risk of mortality related to asphyxia in preterm infants born at night, compared to preterm infants born during the day. The Hong Kong study, based on data from the Swedish birth reg...

Asphyxia in Medical Dictionary

Asphyxia

Asphyxia (from Greek a-, "without" and σφυγμός (sphygmos), "pulse, heartbeat" ... An example of asphyxia is choking. Asphyxia causes generalized hypoxia, which ... asphyxia n. A condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body accompanied by an increas...

Drowning

...rowning is a leading cause of accidental death in the United States and the ... Drowning has been previously defined as death secondary to asphyxia while ... Drowning is a significant cause of disability and death. ... Aggressively treat victims of drowning . Research and experience show...

Asphyxia in Biological News

Simple drug treatment may prevent nicotine-induced SIDS: Study

...n its face or has an irregular breathing pattern during sleep, for example. However, the ability to release those hormones during moments of apnea or asphyxia is impaired due to nicotine exposure. During those episodes, specific proteins sensitive to hypoxia stimulate the cell to release catecholamines. ...

$5.1 billion would save 6 million children

...aths worldwide could be prevented with existing interventions to prevent and treat pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, neonatal sepsis, preterm delivery and asphyxia at birth, disorders that annually cause almost three-quarters of child deaths worldwide. The researchers calculate that a two-thirds reduction in chil...

New Estimates For The Causes Of Child Deaths Worldwide

...laria (8%), neonatal sepsis or pneumonia (10%), preterm delivery (10%), and asphyxia at birth (8%). Robert Black (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Hea...l period, primarily due to preterm delivery, sepsis or pneumonia, and birth asphyxia should also be addressed. The new estimates of the causes of child deaths s...

Asphyxia in Biological Definition

Thermoregulation

...deeper until it passes into the sleep of death. Occasionally, however, convulsions may set in towards the end, and a death somewhat similar to that of asphyxia takes place. In some experiments on cats performed by Sutherland Simpson and Percy T. Herring, they found them unable to survive when the rectal tempe...