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cause of death in a 22 days baby presented to causualty
baby's mother presented with a complaint that baby has hiccups and a single convulsions episode of convulsions in upperlimbs lasting for about 3 -5 min, today morning in causualty.
O/E : GC poor, pallor + , tense anterior frontenelle, no cry, respiration and activity is poor with shallow respiratory, distended bladder, CRT < 3 sec. sO2 : 56% .
but the unfortunate thing is that the baby died within 2 hrs.
can u please explain the causes of death in this condition and treatment.
O/E : GC poor, pallor + , tense anterior frontenelle, no cry, respiration and activity is poor with shallow respiratory, distended bladder, CRT < 3 sec. sO2 : 56% .
but the unfortunate thing is that the baby died within 2 hrs.
can u please explain the causes of death in this condition and treatment.
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Dindukurthi Sudhakar on -
The permission to do PM is difficult to obtain in our country.
The tense fontanelle should give some clues.
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Permalink Reply by sriteja on -
It could be "severe intraventricular haemorhage" as child on 22nd day presented wid focal convulsions.
or it might b meningitis...
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