| Concerns about umbilical cord clamping |
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| Home -------- Site Map Apgar Oxygen an urgent ongoing need Transition fetal to postnatal circulation Tradition Protocols Outcomes >>Concerns (NCS p10) Question Authority References Links Notes Contact: Eileen Nicole Simon eileen4brainresearch@yahoo.com |
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| Evidence versus opinion |
Increased prevalence of childhood disorders |
Dependency and need for lifelong care |
Factors in need of closer examination |
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| Failure in school, truancy, school dropout, erratic employment, vagrancy, and criminal activity are later outcomes that should be investigated, as well as seizure disorder, conduct disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and related problems like explosive rage. Abusive parents, prenatal exposure and early use of alcohol and other drugs have long been blamed for problems of school-aged children and adolescents. However, note the similarity of ischemic brainstem damage to the bilateral symmetric brainstem lesions (Wernicke's encephalopathy) caused by chronic alcohol use. |
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| The evidence seems plentiful enough and too tragic to suggest any further studies with human infants on immediate versus delayed cord clamping. Animal activists may protest, but further investigation of monkeys subjected to suffocation and umbilical cord clamping should be done to determine the extent and seriousness of handicaps caused by ischemic damage of brainstem nuclei, especially those within the auditory pathway. |
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| 10. Dependency and lifelong need for care |
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| Developmental disabilities remain lifelong handicaps. Retrospective data is plentiful. I work in the Massachusetts state hospital for mentally ill prison inmates. Special education, seizure disorder, school dropout, and erratic employment history are documented in the charts for the majority of these patients. Often the comment of a mother is included that her son suffered oxygen deprivation at birth. Many of these birth records could be examined. |
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| Mainstreaming of mentally handicapped people is the goal of current treatment. At the same time, the numbers of people in prisons is increasing, and incarceration is the costliest kind of long-term care. There is no cure for brain damage. Every effort must be made to prevent it, and to acknowledge and change current practices that may be adding to the increasing numbers of handicapped people. |
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| Posted: February 27, 2006 (a work in progress) |
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