Viability assessment of neonatal survival and prognosis in puppies born of cesarean section

• Grant number: 12/03234-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2012
• End date: May 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Veterinary Medicine - Animal Clinics and Surgery
• Principal Investigator: Maria Lucia Gomes Lourenço
• Grantee: Maria Lucia Gomes Lourenço
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (FMVZ). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Maria Denise Lopes ; Nereu Carlos Prestes

Abstract

High neonatal mortality in dogs is reported in both eutocic and distocic birth. The viability assessment of newborn dog and the early detection of fetal contribute to reduction of mortality at birth in the canine species. The clinical findings and the results of laboratory tests at the time of birth reflect the latest physiological events of fetal-neonatal transition, and they permit the identification of newborns need medical intervention. Based on this, changes to these parameters, clinicians and laboratory at birth, as well as in the hours following the delivery can be used to establish the probability of the risk of neonatal death. This project objective: 1) evaluate the viability in neonatal dogs newborns (Apgar score modified hemogasometrc parameters, blood glucose, lactate and body weight) from eutocia (Group 1 - three bitches in eutocia) and caesarean section (Group 2 - seven bitches submitted to caesarean section), and one hour after birth; 2) establish the prognosis of survival of puppy born by Cesarean and eutocia in short-term (up to two hours, up to two hours 12:0 am after delivery; up). (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

VASSALO, FLAVIA GARDILIN; BARBIERI SIMOES, CARLA REGINA; SUDANO, MATEUS JOSE; PRESTES, NEREU CARLOS; LOPES, MARIA DENISE; CHIACCHIO, SIMONE BIAGIO; COMES LOURENCO, MARIA LUCIA. Topics in the Routine Assessment of Newborn Puppy Viability. TOPICS IN COMPANION ANIMAL MEDICINE, v. 30, n. 1, p. 16-21, MAR 2015. (12/03234-0)