A Study on Serum Calcium Level in Birth Asphyxia.

Introduction: Birth asphyxia continues to form one of the five leading cause of perinatal death all over and the most important single contributor to various forms of physical or mental retardation. Materials & methods: 75 newborn were enrolled for the present study. Out of which 50 neonates asphyxiated full term served as cases and 25 were healthy neonates served as controls. To study Serum Calcium level in neonates at the age of 24 h, 72 h. & 120h Serum calcium was estimated by OCPC method. Result: There is a highly significant Hypocalcaemia in Hypoxic children from day of birth which persisted up to the study period 1st, 3rd and 5th day. There are abnormal Calcium metabolism percentage increases with severity of asphyxia and this abnormality persists up to 5th day in Stage III but it gets improved in Stage I and II by 5th day of life. Conclusion: We found factors like Birth Weight, Stages of HIE to be associated with Birth asphyxiated newborn.