Fetal hypoxia

Last revised by Alexandra Stanislavsky on 3 Jun 2016

Fetal hypoxia (FH) (also known as intrauterine hypoxia (IH)) occurs when the fetus is deprived of an adequate supply of oxygen.

Fetal hypoxia can occur from a number of reasons:

Three categories are proposed for the origins of fetal hypoxia:

  1. pre-placental hypoxia
  2. utero-placental hypoxia
  3. post-placental hypoxia

The severity of fetal hypoxia can be assessed with several Doppler parameters which include

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