Neonatal Encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy - Today on Medscape

Introduction ; In January 2003, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released a publication entitled Neonatal Encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy: Defining the Pathogenesis and Pathophysiology.[1] The Task Force met over a period of 3 years and worked with expert consultants, conducted a literature review, and received input and endorsements from professional societies and organizations. It is the most extensive peer-reviewed d...

Neonatal Encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy Revisited: The Current State of Knowl

To re-assess obstetrician–gynecologists' knowledge of neonatal encephalopathy and cerebral palsy after publication of the ACOG/AAP Task Force report. A questionnaire investigating knowledge of neon...

Neonatal Encephalopathy: Update on Therapeutic Hypothermia and Other Novel Thera

Neonatal encephalopathy (NE) is a major cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity. Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is standard treatment for newborns at 36 weeks of gestation or greater with intrapart...

Therapeutic hypothermia in neonatal hypoxic encephalopathy: A systematic review

Therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal encephalopathy reduces neurologic disability and cerebral palsy, but its effect on neonatal, infantile and childhood mortality is uncertain. The setting where i...

Teenage outcome after being born at term with moderate neonatal encephalopathy

The aim of this study was to assess cognitive functions and behavior problems in teenagers who survived moderate neonatal encephalopathy and did not develop cerebral palsy. The study population com...

Neonatal Encephalopathy Julie Parsons, M.D Assistant Professor, Pediatric Neurology November 19, 2009. - ....

Objectives To promote understanding between legal and medical professionals To explain the role of a pediatric neurologist To define neonatal encephalopathy To define cerebral palsy To explore the...

Cerebral palsy after neonatal encephalopathy: do neonates with suspected asphyxi

Aim We sought to investigate how brain injury and severity, and neurological subtype of cerebral palsy (CP) differed in term-born children with CP after neonatal encephalopathy, between those with ...

Ischemic hypoxic encephalopathy: The role of MRI of neonatal injury and medico-l

Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy is one of the major causes of neonatal death and neurological disability in the child, and represents the most common birth injury claim. Intrapartum asphyxia often...

Neonatal encephalopathy and hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy: moving from controversy to consensus defini....

acute encephalopathy. These neonatal signs include an Apgar score <5 at 5 and 10 min; fetal umbilical acidemia (pH < 7.0 or... dyskinetic cerebral palsy.1 They suggest the evidence for the...

Neonatal Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy | Conditions | UCSF Benioff Children's

Discover how neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) critically affects newborns, including causes, symptoms and advanced treatment options.