(4) Department of Pediatrics, Neonatal Unit, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India Educational Aims To review the use of various pharmacologic agents in the prevention…
Fig. 20.1 Threshold of hypoxaemia at different altitudes Changing the point at which hypoxaemia is defined and oxygen is given results in a major variation in the amount of oxygen…
Fig. 7.1 Bubble NCPAP. (A) Respiratory inductance plethysmography abdominal and chest bands; (B) esophageal balloon connected to pressure transducer. (A, B) are being used for pulmonary mechanics measurements in this…
Mode Process Comment Blood gas related Blood gas analysis Requires collection of blood specimens, and is thus invasive, and may be associated with increased need for blood transfusion Generally used…
Fig. 9.1 The relative humidity of a gas depends on its absolute water content and gas temperature. At 37.0 °C and 100 % relative humidity, the respiratory gas has 44…
Nasal mask Facial mask Nasal prongs Mouthpiece Age Every age Every age Adolescent Child and adolescent Contraindications Gastroesophageal reflux, patient without autonomy Advantages Small volume, comfortable, allows eating and…
Fig. 1.1 The stages of lung development. H&E staining of mouse lungs are shown during the pseudoglandular (a, E13.5), canalicular (b, E15.5), saccular (c, E18.5), and alveolar stages (d–f, postnatal…
Study Premedication Population (median values or range for gestational age and birth weights) Desaturation Bradycardia Oei (2002) Placebo N = 10 Missing data Maximal heart rate drop – 62 ± 46 bpm 30 weeks…
In this chapter we further develop our method that allows us to say that the fetal heart is normal, proving this by our choice of the critical reference images. This…
We are now going to describe, the principle cardiac pathologies that are encountered prenatally. First step. pathologies of position Pathologies of position are the first we look for when examining…
