Prevention and treatment of cerebral palsy caused by intrapartum damage with novel hypoxia index

Cerebral palsy is a big problem in fetal monitoring. Novel hypoxia index=the sum of all fetal heart rate deceleration durations (min) in fetal monitoring, which is divided by the lowest fetal heart rate (bpm), and multiplied by 100. The hypoxia index of all 6 cerebral palsy cases was 25 or more, while the index of all 16 normal non cerebral palsy cases was 24 or less. Thus, cerebral palsy is prevented, if hyoxia index is 24 or less in the birth, and the newborn babies whose hypoxia index was 25 or more can be treated by early cerebral palsy therapy in neonatal stage. As the hypoxia index is adopted to all of deceleration patterns and continuous bradycardia because its calculation equation did not include lag-time, traditional but subjective early, late and variable deceleration pattern classification will change to numeric hypoxia index in fetal monitoring.