This tracing was recorded from a full term infant at the age of 11 to 15 hours. The infant was born in ceasarian section due to severe bradicardia. He underwent full resuscitation after delivery. Spontaneous breathing did not appear. His Apgar score was 1, 4 and 4 at 1, 5 and 10 minutes of age. Cord pH was 7.07. The infant developped multiorgan failure and died at the age of 15 hours.
The tracing is of low voltage, with very low voltage burst that do not go beyond 10 microvolts. the recording was terminated a few minutes before death, at the last 10 minutes of recording it becomes isoelectric.