Christophe Vayssière, Branka Yli, Diogo Ayres-de-Campos, Austin Ugwumadu, Lola Loussert, Lena Hellström-Westas, Susanna Timonen, Christiane Schwarz, Inês Nunes, Georges-Emmanuel Roth
In high-resource countries, adverse perinatal outcomes are currently rare in term, non-malformed fetuses, undergoing labor, but they remain a leading cause of medico-legal dispute. Precise terminology is important to describe situations related to inadequate fetal oxygenation in labor, to ensure appropriate communication between healthcare professionals and adequate transmission of information to parents. This position statement provides consensus definitions from European perinatologists and midwives regarding the most appropriate terminology to describe situations related to inadequate fetal oxygenation in labor: suspected fetal hypoxia, severe newborn acidemia, newborn metabolic acidosis, and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy...
March 2024: European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology