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A 5-day-old newborn male infant is transferred to your service for increased oxygen requirement and respiratory distress. He was born at 35 weeks of gestation to a 24-year-old lady, who is G7P6. She had seizure disorder for which she takes valproic acid and lamitrigine. She had regular prenatal care and normal screening US. Delivery was […]

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European Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Respiratory Distress Syndrome – 2019 Update

Among the new recommendations 1 Mothers at high risk of preterm birth < 28–30 weeks’ gestation should be transferred to perinatal centres with experience in management of RDS (C1). 2 Clinicians should offer a single course of prenatal corticosteroids to all women at risk of preterm delivery from when pregnancy is considered potentially viable until […]

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