Fetal hypoxia

Consequences

 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

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.


References

  1. ↑ 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. 
  • MĚCHUROVÁ, Alena. Kardiotocography : minimum for practise. 1. edition. Praha : Maxdorf, 2012. 183 pp. ISBN 978-80-7345-274-2.