Carbajal UJA, Pastrana HE, Cerna CL, Salas AL

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Objective. The purpose of the study was to determine if the blood lactate concentration could be used as a perinatal asphyxia indicator in women in childbirth work.
Material and methods. 32 women in childbirth work and to their neonates were studied; in these women before the children were born, a blood sample was obtained. The same was done in the children, after birth, it was taken from cord. The concentration of the lactate was measured in the blood serum.
Results. The lactate in the women with low risk was of 1.83 0.24 and in those of high risk of 1.89 ‹ 2.36 mmol/L. The level lactate average in the newly born of mothers with low risk was of 3.98 ‹ 3.09 and in those of high risk it was of 4.67 ‹ 5.07. The asphyxia immediate neonatal was presented in two children. There was not statistical differences the concentration of the lactate between both groups of women and of children.
Conclusions. The blood lactate in women in childbirth work, with low or high obstetric risk stays in normal ranges and it is not correlated with asphyxia. The neonates presents a transitory elevation of blood lactate without clinical asphyxia, so it could not be consider as a biochemical indicator of this problem.

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