Fetal hypoxia

Consequences
The result of fetal hypoxia can be:


 * hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (educational problems, abnormal development, severe handicap, sometimes associated with asylum care),
 * fetal death.

Prevention
Methods of preventing fetal hypoxia are as follows: :


 * 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.

Related Articles

 * Intrapartum fetal monitoring
 * Cardiotocography
 * Fetal pulse oximetry
 * Fetal ECG