can someone please tell me what a sub arachnoid haemorrhage and a subdural haemorrhage is?

Question

my child substained these when delivered by c section. 1999
just found out now.

Answer 1

The dura mater is the tissue which surrounds the brain. The hemorrhage would have been beneath this layer of the brain. The arachnoid process is much deeper in the base/middle of the brain. Are you certain that this problem was caused by the c-section delivery? It sounds as though, without being absolutely sure that the baby may have been delivered by forceps and these created a problem. Without being absolutely sure of the facts it is difficult to answer precisely on here.

Answer 2

Subarachnoid hemorrhage: Bleeding within the head into the space between two membranes that surround the brain. The bleeding is beneath the arachnoid membrane and just above the pia mater. (The arachnoid is the middle of three membranes around the brain while the pia mater is the innermost one.)



Subdural: Below the dura, the outermost, toughest, and most fibrous of the three membranes (meninges) covering the brain and the spinal cord. An subdural hematoma is a collection of blood beneath the dura.

While ICH (intracranial hemorrhage) was significantly associated with vaginal birth, it was not dependent on prolonged duration of labor or on traumatic or assisted vaginal birth.

"In our study, neither the size of the baby or the baby's head, the length of the labor, nor the use of vacuum or forceps to assist the delivery caused the bleeds," Dr. Gilmore said. "The bleeds are probably caused by pressure on the skull during delivery."

In a newborn, the bones of the skull have not fused together, so the bones of the skull can shift and frequently overlap each other during vaginal delivery, to allow the baby's head to fit through the birth canal. This shifting can compress the brain or cause blood vessels to tear, which causes bleeding.

Most of the bleeds identified were very small subdural hematomas--bleeding between the brain and the thick membrane that covers the brain below the skull--and a majority of them were located in the lower, back part of the brain over the occipital lobe or the cerebellum, which is below the occipital lobe.

Typically, small bleeds resolve over time without causing problems, though larger ones may cause problems later in the child's life, including seizures, subtle learning problems or problems with motor development


If your baby sustained these hemorrhages post a c-section delivery; the only probable cause I could think of is prolonged labor.

Answer 3

A subdural occurs when blood collects between the scull and dura of the brain (needs to be corrected with surgery), a sub achnoid occurs in the spider like lining of the brain ( this one isn't always necessary to correct with surgery)

Answer 4

it is bit of a dodgy site name but this tells you all. Sounds strange for a C section, was this an emergency part way through a normal birth.

If not, your child may have had this regardless of the birth, or the method of delivery, it was just one of those things that happens to many people in life.

http://www.hospitalnegligence.co.uk/sub_arachnoid_haemorrhage.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-arachnoid_haemorrhage

Answer 5

a haemorrhage is a leakage of blood
sub means under
it sounds as if theres a leakage of blood under the skull

Answer 6

these terms refer to bleeding to parts of the brain .... website medline plus has a great dictionary
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics.html

Answer 7

Go to ASK.COM put in your question , it will tell you there, but it is something to do with the brain