A full-term pregnancy lasts 40 weeks. This gives the fetus time to grow. At 40 weeks, the organs are usually fully developed. If a baby is born too early, the lungs may not be fully developed, and ...

Surfactant therapy has become a routine for neonatal respiratory care and already proved to reduce morbidity and mortality in neonatal respiratory distress syndrome. The surfactant replacement has ...

Infants who are born at 34 to 36 weeks of gestation (late preterm) are at greater risk for adverse respiratory and other outcomes than those born at 37 weeks of gestation or later. It is not known ...

Use of antenatal corticosteroid in twin pregnancies at risk of late preterm delivery reduced the risk of severe neonatal respiratory morbidity. Risk was only reduced in neonates delivered between 12 ...

Pregnant woman holding her stomach Maternal TSH levels >4 mIU/L are associated with increased risks for prematurity and neonatal respiratory distress syndrome. In pregnant women, maternal thyrotropin ...

A newborn’s respiratory rate should always fall within a healthy range, typically 40–60 breaths per minute. They typically breathe faster than adults and older children and may breathe slower when ...

We previously reported the results of a randomized, controlled trial showing that repeat doses of antenatal corticosteroids reduced the risk of respiratory distress syndrome and serious neonatal ...

Newborns with respiratory distress should be evaluated for primary ciliary dyskinesia, a rare genetic disease that has features similar to cystic fibrosis, says Thomas Ferkol, M.D., from Washington ...

MACON, Ga. — Middle Georgia State University's Respiratory Therapy program has created a neonatal track. It means Central Georgia now has the only respiratory therapy degree with a neonatal track ...

A recent case report from the researchers at the University of São Paulo, published in the journal CLINICS, shows how newborns can also be infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...