Contributing factors, complications and immediate outcome of birth asphyxia in a tertiary care centre in Assam

Abstract

Background: Birth asphyxia is defined by the World Health Organization as the failure to initiate and sustain breathing at birth. Etiological factors include maternal factors like hypertension, chorioamnionitis, diabetes, maternal pulmonary or cardiac disorders, placental factors like abnormal placentation, abruption, infarction, hydrops, uterine rupture, umbilical cord prolapse, entanglement, true knot, compression, abnormalities of blood vessels, fetal factors like anemia, cardiomyopathy, infections, hydrops, neonatal factors like cyanotic congenital heart disease, persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn, respiratory failure due to meconium aspiration syndrome, congenital pneumonia, pneumothorax etc.
Aim: To study the contributing factors, complications and immediate outcome of birth asphyxia in a tertiary care centre in Assam.