Classification of Newborn Encephalopathy

Abstract

Investigators from the Department of Neurology, Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston and the Neuroepidemiology Branch, Bethesda take issue with the terms hypoxic-ischemic and post-asphyxial encephalopathy when the etiology is frequently in doubt.

Keywords

• newborn encephalopathy
• hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
• metabolic disorders