AUTISM PREVALENCE & RESPIRATORY DEPRESSION AT BIRTH

. RESPIRATORY DEPRESSION: Oxygen insufficiency Anoxic brain damage

. AUTISM: 2 – 6 per 1000

. FORGOTTEN RESEARCH: Experimental asphyxia of   monkeys at birth

. HUMAN CHILDREN learn to speak via the auditory sense.

FORGOTTEN SCIENCE? Transition from fetal to neonatal respiration: Complete only after blood fills the capillaries surrounding the alveoli. Transition can take several minutes.

. BRAIN DAMAGE: Oxygen deficiency damaged nuclei in the midbrain auditory pathway.

--. OUTCOMES (monkeys): Developmental delay. Brain maturation was not normal

-- HOW MANY PARENTS KNOW ABOUT THE PROTOCOL FOR UMBILICAL CORD CLAMPING?

Developmental delay

Normal monkey

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-- FORGOTTEN TRADITION: Traditional textbooks: The umbilical cord should not be cut until breathing is established. Current protocol:     Clamp the cord within 30 seconds after birth.

.-- LOSS OF SPEECH COMPREHENSION has occurred following injury to the mid-brain auditory pathway.

Midbrain auditory system damage, monkey

anoxic damage

normal

Midbrain auditory system damage, human infant

anoxic damage

normal

Eileen Nicole Simon, conradsimon.org autism-end-it-now.org