Beneficial Effect of Intravenous Magnesium Sulphate in Term Neonates With Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy(HIE)

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2020-12-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Neonatal mortality rate is the highest in Pakistan. And Birth Asphyxia is one of the main reversible causes. Outcomes related to birth asphyxia can be improved, if intervention done in time with proper measures. MgSO4 is cheaper and easily available drug.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Pakistan

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• After informed consent, any child who is term, inborn or out born fulfilling the definition of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy according to history, apgar or scoring system and reaching within 6 hours of delivery in nursery department of pediatric medicine unit-II, Services Hospital, Lahore

Exclusion Criteria:

• Preterm Syndromic/dysmorphic child Term child with HIE and arriving after 6 hours of life. Term child with unrelated co morbidities eg congenital heart defects, Renal failure etc