Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Billie Lou Short In 1944 Kolff and Berk observed that blood became oxygenated as it passed through cellophane chambers of their artificial kidney membrane (1). This historic…
Principles of Management of Respiratory Problems
Principles of Management of Respiratory Problems William E. Truog Sergio G. Golombek Although the principles of management of respiratory disorders are constant, the techniques of treatment have become more complex…
Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Jonathan M. Davis Warren N. Rosenfeld Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a chronic lung disease that develops in newborn infants treated with oxygen and positive-pressure mechanical ventilation for a…
Acute Respiratory Disorders
Acute Respiratory Disorders Jeffrey A. Whitsett Ward R. Rice Barbara B. Warner Susan E. Wert Gloria S. Pryhuber Successful adaptation to air breathing at the time of birth is the…
Control of Breathing: Development, Apnea of Prematurity, Apparent Life-Threatening Events, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Control of Breathing: Development, Apnea of Prematurity, Apparent Life-Threatening Events, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Mark W. Thompson Carl E. Hunt The fetus makes breathing movements in utero and these movements…
Intrauterine Growth Restriction and the Small-For-Gestational-Age Infant
Intrauterine Growth Restriction and the Small-For-Gestational-Age Infant Marianne S. Anderson William W. Hay INTRODUCTION Much of the interest in infants who are small for gestational age (SGA) at birth, and…
Multiple Gestations
Multiple Gestations Mary E. Revenis Lauren A. Johnson-Robbins The incidence of twins, triplets, and higher-order multiple gestations now accounts for approximately 3% of all pregnancies in the United States. The…
The Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infant
The Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infant Apostolos Papageorgiou Ermelinda Pelausa Lajos Kovacs Tremendous progress in the survival of newborn infants has resulted in the need for population descriptors other than “premature” or…
Thermal Regulation
Thermal Regulation Michael Friedman Stephen Baumgart A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Tarnier was an obstetrician in Paris who first applied modern concepts of incubation to human infants starting around 1830 (1,2). Tarnier’s…
