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HIE - Timing a Brain Injury

 

Timing of Brain Injury
Today we are going to talk about the timing of a brain injury due to Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy.  There are many ways to time a brain injury for a fetus that suffered from a lack of oxygen or lack of blood flow.  This is important in cases because if it is due to a doctor or hospital or nurses' fault, obviously if they had warning and didn't act upon it, they should be held accountable.  If they didn't have warning, they should not be held accountable. 

There are various ways you can time a  Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathic insult to a baby's brain:

  1. Look, when did the baby have seizures;
  2. check the laboratory values – specifically nucleated red blood cells;
  3. Radiographic studies – sonograms, head MRI's or CAT scans are useful to help time the injury.

And of course you want to check the fetal heart rate tracings.  Because depending upon what the fetal heart tracings show, that can help you time and insult or injury to a baby's brain.  It is usually not one cause in isolation that helps time an injury, but rather a combination of factors.  In other words the laboratory factors, the factors involving the radiographic studies, the fetal heart rate tracings, putting all of those factors and others together, help one time when an injury Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathic injury occurred during labor and delivery.

All are Cerebral Palsy Videos

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 1 - Introduction to Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 2 - Causes of Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 3 - Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 4 - Timing a Brain Injury

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 5 - Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 6 - Nucleated Red Blood Cells

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 7 - Radiograph

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 8 - Placenta Pathlogy

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 9 - Microcephaly

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 10 - Vaginal birth after C-section (VBAC)

Cerebral Palsy video chapter 11 - Placental Abruption