Respiratory distress in newborn infants

The greatest less of infant life occurs around the time of birth (Eliet, 1958) and the mortality rate for first day deaths has shown less improvement than for any other time during the first year (Arey and Dent, 1953). "Once the human feetus has attained a gestational age permitting extra-uterine survival, neonatal death may be more commonly associated with failure of respiratory adaptation than with any other adaptational failure" (Smith, 1964). About two-thirds of all deaths in the newborn are associated with respiratory failure (Briggs and Nogg, 1958; Drissell and Smith, 1962). Hutchisen et al (1962) stated that the pulmonary syndrome of the newborn is probably the major problem of present day neonatal paediatries.

Grantor

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Year dc:date.issued

1966

Author dc:creator

• Malan, Atties Fourie

• Medicine
• infants
• perinatal death

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/11427/32038

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/32038