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Study Finds Decline in Infant Cerebral Palsy
According to Seedol, a study conducted by a team of researchers in the Netherlands suggests a decline in the number of children diagnosed with cerebral palsy. The study findings were published in the journal of Pediatrics concluded that promising developments have been made in recent years in terms of cerebral palsy diagnosis and their severity on infants born prematurely. The study conducted by the University Medical Center Utrecht examined 3,000 children born prematurely, a group commonly susceptible to being diagnosed with cerebral palsy, over a 15-year period from 1990 to 2005. The researchers found that 6.5 percent of the infants born between 1990 and 1993 were diagnosed with the birth injury, while only 2.2 percent of infants born between 2002 and 2005 received a similar diagnosis. The decline could be attributed to technological and medical advances, study authors suggest. Advances in perinatal and neonatal care may have contributed to the…
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Hospital Watchdog Warns of Early Cesarean Deliveries and Birth Injuries
The Leapfrog Group, a voluntary patient-safety program, said that early elective deliveries might put infants at an increased risk of birth injuries. The group presented its finding to inform parents-to-be about the risks of elective early deliveries. The group states some hospitals across the country are delivering 40 percent of newborn babies early for no medical reason. Among the 773 hospitals in the United States, the group found a wide range of inconsistencies between how often facilities performed early elective deliveries. Additionally, allowing early deliveries may result in higher birth injury, infant mortality rates and permanent health problems, the group claims. An early elective delivery is a cesarean section, a surgical procedure made through a pregnant mother’s abdomen to deliver a baby. Medical experts recommend a cesarean section when a vaginal delivery may pose a health risk to mother or baby, or in cases of multiple births. The Leapfrog Group…
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Brain Hibernation for Stroke Victims
According to Nursing Times, researchers have made recent claims that lowering the temperature of the brain could help victims of stroke by preventing death or disability from occurring. A group of these researchers are seeking to acquire funding for a trial in 21 countries in Europe, involving 80 hospitals. They hope to reach 1,500 patients. Lowering the temperature of the brain puts it into a state of hibernation, causing it to require less oxygen. This reduces damage and gives doctors more time to deal with damaged blood vessels. Currently, doctors use this same technique of putting the brain into hibernation for patients who have an elevated risk of brain damage, either due to cardiac health issues or due to birth defects. Dr. Malcom Macleod of the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh notes that one European dies from a stroke every 90 seconds. Approximately double that…
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