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Trends in Perinatal MOrtality & Cerebral Palsy in Western Australia, 1967 to 1985 BMJ 304:1658-1663, Stanley,F.J.&Watson,L., 1992 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract Large increases in the use of interventions aimed at reducing birth asphyxia and handicaps had not(by 1985)resulted in lower rates of cerebral palsy.This suggests that birth asphyxia is not a major cause.The increased survival of low birthweight infants has resulted in more cerebral palsy in this group,due either to postnatal complications of immaturity or prenatal damage to the fetal brain.These findings have implications for planning perinatal care and for litigation for putative obstetric malpractice in cerebral palsy cases.

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