Intrapartum hypoxic-ischemic cerebral injury and cerebral palsy: Medicolegal issues

Pediatrics

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 851-859

  Perlman, Jeffrey M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID BASE BALANCE; APGAR SCORE; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MONITORING; GAS EXCHANGE; HYPOXIA; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OXYGEN TENSION; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

APGAR SCORE; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETAL HYPOXIA; FETAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALPRACTICE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0030956105     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.99.6.851     Document Type: Review

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