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The suctioning in the delivery room debate

Early Human Development, 2011
Meconium 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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Circulatory emergencies in the delivery room

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2019
The 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, Wade D, Rich, Satyan, Lakshminrusimha   +2 more
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On Call for Delivery Room Experience

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1953
HE on-call program for students on the labor and delivery service of the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital is arranged so that a student nurse may remain with a mother throughout that mother's labor and delivery. When labor is prolonged, this may not be possible, but usually it works out.
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The ethics of delivery-room resuscitation

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2008
Perinatal 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
Steven, Byrne, Edgardo, Szyld, John, Kattwinkel   +2 more
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Ethical Decisions in the Delivery Room

Clinics in Perinatology, 1996
Avoidance 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, H G, Ginsberg, M C, McGettigan   +2 more
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Computers in the Examining Room, the Delivery Room, and the Nursery

1987
Early 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, 1981
Does 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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Russian Roulette in the Delivery Room

Pediatrics, 2005
To the Editor .— At the impending birth of a marginally viable fetal infant, optimistic rescuers focus on auspicious probabilities (to take an example, odds for intact survival are 5 to 1 in favor). However, terrified parents look at the future through the opposite end of the telescope: They focus on the less-likely …
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The Role of Oxygen in the Delivery Room

Clinics in Perinatology, 2012
As recently as the year 2000, 100% oxygen was recommended to begin resuscitation of depressed newborns in the delivery room. However, the most recent recommendations of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation counsel the prudent use of oxygen during resuscitation.
Jay P, Goldsmith, John, Kattwinkel
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Resuscitation of the Newborn in the Delivery Room

Current Pediatric Reviews, 2013
Resuscitation of the newly born baby is among the most important and commonly performed interventions worldwide. Different approaches have been used for thousands of years depending upon both fashion and the scientific understanding at the time. Artificial respiration and an "ABC" approach has been the mainstay of delivery room resuscitation for about ...
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