Assessment |
Biopsychology |
Comparative |
Cognitive |
Developmental |
Language |
Individual differences |
Personality |
Philosophy |
Social |
Methods |
Statistics |
Clinical |
Educational |
Industrial |
Professional items |
World psychology |
Clinical: Approaches · Group therapy · Techniques · Types of problem · Areas of specialism · Taxonomies · Therapeutic issues · Modes of delivery · Model translation project · Personal experiences ·
Birth injuries, particularly brain damage can occur in the process of childbirth due to a number of factors:
- Breech birth
- Medical instrument use, particularly associated with use of forceps and other devices placed around the feotuses head to aid manual extraction from the womb. etc
- Obstetrical complications
- Neonatal anoxia
ICD-10 classification
(P10-P15) Birth trauma
- (P10) Intracranial laceration and haemorrhage due to birth injury
- (P11) Other birth injuries to central nervous system
- (P12) Birth injury to scalp
- (P120) Cephalhaematoma due to birth injury
- (P13) Birth injury to skeleton
- (P14) Birth injury to peripheral nervous system
- (P140) Erb's paralysis due to birth injury
- (P141) Klumpke's paralysis due to birth injury
- (P142) Phrenic nerve paralysis due to birth injury
- (P143) Other brachial plexus birth injuries
- (P148) Birth injuries to other parts of peripheral nervous system
- (P149) Birth injury to peripheral nervous system, unspecified
- (P15) Other birth injuries