Fetal hypoxia
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Consequences[edit | edit source]
For more information see Neonatal hypoxia.The result of fetal hypoxia can be:
- hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (educational problems, abnormal development, severe handicap, sometimes associated with asylum care),
- fetal death.
Prevention[edit | edit source]
Methods of preventing fetal hypoxia are as follows:[1]:
- centralization of births in maternity hospitals,
- prenatal counseling activities,
- allocation of risk conditions (complications of previous births, preeclampsia, eclampsia, diabetes mellitus, cardiopathy,...) to specialized workplaces,
- transport in utero in case of impending premature birth,
- lege artis procedures in obstetric practice,
- intrapartum monitoring.
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ KREJČÍ, Vratislav. Kardiotokografie, poruchy děložní činnosti, hypoxie plodu [lecture for subject Gynekologie a porodnictví předstátnicová stáž, specialization Všeobecné lékařství, 1. lékařská fakulta Univerzita Karlova v Praze]. Praha. 17.2.2013.
Recommended reading[edit | edit source]
- MĚCHUROVÁ, Alena. Kardiotocography : minimum for practise. 1. edition. Praha : Maxdorf, 2012. 183 pp. ISBN 978-80-7345-274-2.
