title: Clinical hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy score of the Iberoamerican Society of Neonatology (Siben): A new proposal for diagnosis and management.
abstract: Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy is a major complication of perinatal asphyxia, with high morbidity, mortality and neurologic sequelae as cerebral palsy, mostly in poor or developing countries. The difficulty in the diagnosis and management of newborns in these countries is astonishing, thus resulting in unreliable data on this pathology and bad outcomes regarding mortality and incidence of neurologic sequelae. The objective of this article is to present a new clinical diagnostic score to be started in the delivery room and to guide the therapeutic approach, in order to improve these results.
authors.affiliation: Sociedad Iberoamericana de Neonatología, Dana Point, CA, USA.
authors.forename: José Maria Rodriguez
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Perez
authors.affiliation: Sociedad Iberoamericana de Neonatología, Dana Point, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Sergio G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Golombek
authors.affiliation: Sociedad Iberoamericana de Neonatología, Dana Point, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Augusto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sola
mesh_terms: D001034:Apgar Score; D001238:Asphyxia Neonatorum / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D020925:Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012955:Societies, Medical