Patient's question:
Daughter was born without crying, hospital doctors said it was baby asphyxia. Currently, she is being resuscitated in the hospital. Please ask the hospital doctors how to care for a baby with asphyxia, how to treat and prevent it? What are the nursing diagnoses for baby asphyxia?Doctor's answer:
Infant asphyxia refers to a disease caused by various etiologies before, during, or after birth, which leads to fetal hypoxia in the uterus, resulting in intrauterine distress, or respiratory and circulatory disorders during delivery, leading to the absence of spontaneous breathing or the failure to establish regular breathing within the first minute after birth. The main pathophysiological changes include hypoxemia, hypercapnia, and acidosis. It is necessary to remove as much respiratory secretions as possible; establish breathing and increase ventilation; and maintain normal circulation to ensure sufficient cardiac output.