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Delivery-related deaths of term infants decreased nearly 40% over two decades in Scotland, most likely because fewer babies died from lack of oxygen during childbirth …
The risk of delivery-related perinatal death decreased from 8.8 to 5.5 deaths per 10,000 births between 1988 and 2007 …
The decrease was mostly attributable to a significant drop in deaths ascribed to intrapartum anoxia, which fell … from 5.7 to 3.0 per 10,000 births
… “The pattern of the decline suggests that this was primarily due to a reduced number of severely anoxic infants, rather than improved neonatal resuscitation. The change was paralleled by increased rates of cesarean delivery, but there is no direct evidence supporting a causal association between the two trends,” …
Melissa Maimann, Essential Birth Consulting 0400 418 448