Oxygen-Rich Lifesaving Efforts Pose Risk for Respiratory Infections
Each year, thousands of premature infants battle to breathe. Thanks to life-saving interventions developed in the past couple decades, steroids given to their mothers to stall pre-term labor, mechanical ventilation, air enriched with extra oxygen, and surfactant, a crucial wetting agent that makes breathing less work - most of these newborns survive with enough lungfunction to grow and go home.
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