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Alveolar recruitment in the delivery room
The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 2012Most preterm babies with a gestational age less than 23-27 weeks need a respiratory support in the delivery room (DR); the aim of ventilation is to create and maintain a functional residual capacity (FRC); to facilitate gas exchange and to minimize acute lung injury. The application of a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) from the first breaths
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Circulatory emergencies in the delivery room
Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2019The transition from fetal to neonatal life is a dramatic and complex process involving extensive physiologic changes, which are most obvious at the time of birth. Individuals who care for newly born infants must monitor the progress of the transition and be prepared to intervene when necessary.
Anup C, Katheria +2 more
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British Journal of Midwifery, 1996
In the UK a hospital environment has become the norm for women in childbirth, despite evidence that it is not necessarily safer for all women. This article discusses the reasons why the hospital delivery room has evolved to be like it is today. The physiological and psychological effects of the room on the woman in labour are discussed along with the ...
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In the UK a hospital environment has become the norm for women in childbirth, despite evidence that it is not necessarily safer for all women. This article discusses the reasons why the hospital delivery room has evolved to be like it is today. The physiological and psychological effects of the room on the woman in labour are discussed along with the ...
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The suctioning in the delivery room debate
Early Human Development, 2011Meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) is a life threatening respiratory disorder in infants born through meconium-stained amniotic fluid (MSAF). Its obstetric and perinatal management has been changing for over 35 years. In pregnancies complicated by MSAF, suction of the hypopharynx before the delivery of the infant's shoulders and postnatal suction of ...
Adriana M, Aguilar, Nestor E, Vain
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The ethics of delivery-room resuscitation
Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2008Perinatal care continues to improve and the number of extremely preterm babies delivered increases. What is the outcome for those babies? Under what circumstances should we not initiate resuscitation or under what circumstances should we discontinue support? How accurate and predictive are the data we have and how can these be improved? Who should make
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Ethical Decisions in the Delivery Room
Clinics in Perinatology, 1996Avoidance of futile therapies that only prolong suffering and the high emotional and economic cost to family and society justifies an attempted differentiation of infants whose defects are so extensive or whose prognoses are so poor that CPR should be withheld.
J P, Goldsmith +2 more
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Ethical dilemmas in the delivery room
Seminars in Perinatology, 1998The decision to withhold or withdraw life support in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is common but is never routine. Often, moral demands make such decisions difficult and emotionally exhausting. But, what is perhaps more challenging from the moral point of view is the transition from the delivery room to the NICU.
D K, Stevenson, A, Goldworth
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Use of Surfactant in the Delivery Room
Clinics in Perinatology, 1989Surfactant supplementation in prevention and treatment of surfactant deficient hyaline membrane disease has been widely studied. This article focuses on the prevention of HMD by preventilatory, tracheal instillation of surfactant in the delivery room.
M S, Kwong, B A, Holm, E A, Egan
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Computers in the Examining Room, the Delivery Room, and the Nursery
1987Early computer applications in OB/GYN were concentrated in medical records/database and signal monitoring. In the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s, data sheet (records of birth events) [1–6] systems for capturing the entire medical history during pregnancy, labor, delivery, nursery, and postpartum stays [7-9] were reported.
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Delivery Rooms: For Women Only?
Law, Medicine and Health Care, 1981Does a hospital have the right to prevent a qualified male nurse from working in its labor and delivery section? In Backus v. Baptist Medical Center, this question was answered in the affirmative by a United States District Court in Arkansas. The case, now on appeal, serves as an obstacle to professional nursing and an affront to the rights of female ...
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