J Gynecol Obst Bio R
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J Gynecol Obst Bio R · Jun 2001
[Regionalization of perinatal care in the Seine-Saint-Denis department of France].
To evaluate a policy designed to regionalize perinatal care in the Seine-Saint-Denis department of France. ⋯ The policy to regionalize perinatal care and increase maternal transfers was well accepted and successfully implemented. The delivery of very preterm infants in maternity hospitals without neonatal units became a rare event.
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J Gynecol Obst Bio R · Feb 2001
Review[Anoxic encephalopathy of the term neonate and brain hypothermia].
The outcome of term newborns with birth asphyxia and moderate to severe hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy remains very poor. After the primary phase of energy failure during asphyxia, neuronal cell metabolism may deteriorate in a secondary phase of brain injury. The window between these two phases opens the way to potential neuroprotective treatments such as brain cooling. Promising experimental data on controlled hypothermia need to be examined with clinical trials.
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J Gynecol Obst Bio R · May 2000
[Bilateral agreements to reduce maternal mortality in developing countries. The FIGO experience].
In 1997, the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) launched its Save the Mother program. Its overall objective is to mobilise obstetricians and gynaecologists in developing and developed countries to work together in an effort to reduce maternal mortality, through operational research demonstrating the feasibility and effectiveness of integrated comprehensive essential obstetric services. The FIGO Save the Mothers Uganda - Canada Project, jointly led by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada and the Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Uganda (AOGU), is one of the projects supported by FIGO. Conducted in Kiboga (Uganda), the project aims the reduction of maternal mortality and morbidity by a series of measures which target the district hospitals, community dispensaries and the community.