Asphyxia in a New-Born Infant

Pierre robin sequence as birth asphyxia in a new born.

A new born baby boy presented with birth asphyxia and respiratory distress. He went into cardiac arrest twice but was resuscitated. On detailed evaluation, he had low set ears and micrognathia with glossoptosis consistent with features of Pierre Robin sequence. Episodes of apnoea disappeared, on nursing, the baby in prone position and later on tongue-lip retention suture were applied. Prompt di...

The New-Born Infant

Public Health. To this end he includes sections on general and clinical bacteriology, clinical mycology, immunity, animal parasites and disease vectors, Public Health laboratory practices, field work, surveys, and office problems. The book is designed to be chiefly a laboratory manual and notebook, although much text is included as well, and the selection of experiments is complete and well org...

The New-Born Infant

paper. Clearly through his discussion appears the great entltusiasm which had been developed by Ehrlich's work on salvarsan, an enthusiasm so great that it is stated that contagion can be eliminated "often, indeed, by one single injection and by a treatment requiring but a few days." N-eisser was equally elated over the matter of serodiagnosis and itspossibilities, but it becomes somewhat uncer...

Congenital Hydronephrosis in a New-born Infant

The patient, a girl of seventeen years, was admitted to the MIater Infirmnorum Hospital on 3rd November, 1933, as a case of acute appendicitis. She gave a typical history of abdominial pain follovwed by nausea and vomiting, the pain later settling down in the right iliac fossa, where, on admissioni, she was tender and rigid. Immecliate operation was decided onl. At operationi niothing unusual w...

A Case of Severe Anæmia in a New-born Infant.