Prevention of Meconium Aspiration Syndrome: An Update and the Baylor Experience
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Prevention of meconium aspiration syndrome: an update and the Baylor experience.
The approach to preventing meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) in the newborn has changed markedly over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s, all infants born through meconium-stained amniotic fluid (MSAf) had upper-airway suctioning before delivery of the shoulders and then had tracheal intubation and suctioning in the delivery room. Now suctioning of the upper airway is no longer recommended, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0899-8280,1525-3252
DOI: 10.1080/08998280.2009.11928491