A method of predicting the course of early postnatal adaptation in full-term children who had birth asphyxia

摘要

FIELD: medicine.;SUBSTANCE: newborn's umbilical blood is examined for the pH level, the content of standard bicarbonate (HCO3std) and excess/deficiency of whole blood buffer bases. It is followed by calculating a diagnostic index (DI) by formula DI=6.32X₁+0.21X₂-0.10X₃ - 49.47, wherein X₁ is the pH level, X₂ is the concentration of HCO3std (mmol/L), X₃ is the concentration of BEb (mmol/L). If the DI value is more than 0, the absence of laboratory signs of disturbed early period of postnatal adaptation in newborns, while the DI value less than 0 enables predicting the complicated clinical course of postnatal adaptation in children suffered birth asphyxia.;EFFECT: use of the method enables high prediction accuracy, early prediction of disturbed adaptation in newborn infants and adequate prescription of further examination and adequate preventive treatment.;4 ex