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Lack of adequate oxygenation is called asphyxia; lack of adequate blood supply is called ischemia. Both are important causes of brain damage and death and affect babies during intrauterine life, labor, and delivery and shortly after birth.
Stage of depression in the newborn often following a difficult delivery
—William Little
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Lacoius-Petruccelli, A. (1987). Asphyxia. In: Perinatal Asphyxia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1807-1_1
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