ABSTRACT
To see the outcome of birth asphyxia in tertiary care hospital Nawabshah. Retrospective descriptive study. The study was conducted at neonatal intensive care unit [N.I.C.U] Paediatric ward of People's medical college and hospital Nawabshah from 1[st] January 2010 to 31[st] December 2010. Record of patients who were admitted in N.IC.U was used for data collection. Data regarding sex, gestational age [term and preterm], and outcome [discharge, expired] was collected. During study period 1657 neonates were admitted, of these 1371. Were term infants 286 were preterm infants, there were 1144 males, and 513 Females. Out of 1657, 466 [22%] patients expired, out of these 466 expired patients, 391 [83.9%] were term babies and 75 [16.09%] were preterm. All the patients admitted in our NICU, birth asphyxia was the leading cause of Neonatal admission and mortality. And birth asphyxia stage 3 HIE had the highest mortality