Electro‐Encephalographic Findings in Children, Previously Treated for Asphyxia Neonatorum

Summary At follow‐up examination of 61 children subjected to postnatal treatment for asphyxia neonatorum in the newborn period, 44 disclosed electro‐encephalograpliie changes. Grave pathologic findings were only noted in children who, at the follow‐up, showed somatic and mental defects (14), while children with slight electro‐encephalo‐graphic changes (16) have developed well in all respects up to the age at which the follow‐up were performed, in spite of a neonatal asphyxia. The neonatal asphyxia in these cases is supposed to have produced organic cerebral injuries of such a degree or nature as to disclose no clinical, but simply electro‐encephalographic, changes.