TY - JOUR
T1 - The aetiology of brachial plexus injury
T2 - What the paediatrician and obstetrician need to know
AU - O'Gorman, Clodagh S.
AU - O'Neill, M. B.
PY - 2006/5
Y1 - 2006/5
N2 - The recognition of brachial plexus injury (BPI) after childbirth suggests to parents a causative rather than temporal relationship. This view is supported by textbooks of paediatrics, which state that: 1. "the mechanism of injury (....) is a forceful separation of the head from the shoulder by lateral bending of the neck with simultaneous shoulder depression, during vaginal delivery"; and 2. "these injuries are due to traction on the brachial plexus during delivery."2 Although an obstetrician will talk to a parent when BPI occurs, the ongoing care of the child is within a mutidisciplinary team, where the paediatrician and obstetrician play leading roles. Parents will ask about aetiology, treatment and prognosis; but is the BPI and outline some data on BPI, which is not congruent with current paediatric texts.
AB - The recognition of brachial plexus injury (BPI) after childbirth suggests to parents a causative rather than temporal relationship. This view is supported by textbooks of paediatrics, which state that: 1. "the mechanism of injury (....) is a forceful separation of the head from the shoulder by lateral bending of the neck with simultaneous shoulder depression, during vaginal delivery"; and 2. "these injuries are due to traction on the brachial plexus during delivery."2 Although an obstetrician will talk to a parent when BPI occurs, the ongoing care of the child is within a mutidisciplinary team, where the paediatrician and obstetrician play leading roles. Parents will ask about aetiology, treatment and prognosis; but is the BPI and outline some data on BPI, which is not congruent with current paediatric texts.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33747664328
SN - 0332-3102
VL - 99
JO - Irish Medical Journal
JF - Irish Medical Journal
IS - 5
ER -