[Prenatal risk factors for neonatal asphyxia: how risk for each?].

Objective: Neonatal asphyxia is the third leading cause of neonatal death and main cause of long-term neurodevelopmental handicap throughout the world. Prevention is more important than treatment. Most previous reports are limited to retrospective investigations of the relationships between some prenatal risk factors and low Apgar scores.

[Clinical study on improving the diagnostic criteria for neonatal asphyxia].

Objective: Diagnosing neonatal asphyxia solely according to Apgar score may lead to misdiagnosis. The aim of this study was to explore new and more accurate diagnostic criteria for neonatal asphyxia.

Methods: Totally 10 376 live born neonates in our hospital were consecutively enrolled into the study.