PEDIATRICS Vol. 82 No. 2 August 1988, pp. 240-249
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Intrapartum Asphyxia and Cerebral Palsy

John M. Freeman MD1 and Karin B. Nelson MD1

1 From the Division of Pediatric Neurology, Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, and the Neuroepidemiology Branch, National Institute of Neurologic and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland

Signs of presumed hypoxia/asphyxia of the fetus are not uncommon and can be detected during labor, in the delivery room, and during the early neonatal period. Virtually no single sign or symptom has sufficient correlation to enable prediction of later cerebral palsy with a reasonable degree of medical certainty. To attribute cerebral palsy to prior asphyxia with reasonable certainty, there must be evidence that a substantial hypoxic injury occurred and that a sequence of events ensued which would prove the clinical impact of that hypoxic insult. Few cases of cerebral palsy meet these criteria.

Key Words: cerebral palsy • asphyxia • hypoxia

Submitted on October 5, 1987
Accepted on December 22, 1987




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