TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Respiratory Distress Syndrome
A1  - de Waal, C. G.
A1  - van Kaam, A. H.
A2  - Kline, Mark W.
PY  - 2018
T2  - Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
AB  - Neonatal  respiratory  distress  syndrome  (RDS)  is  the  most  common  cause  of  respiratory  failure  in  preterm  infants.  Its  incidence  is  inversely  related  to  gestational  age  and  increases  to  as  high  as  95%  in  infants  born  at  22  to  24  weeks  of  gestation.  Over  time,  the  outcome  of  infants  suffering  from  RDS  has  changed  dramatically.  Forty  years  ago,  approximately  50%  of  infants  with  RDS  died.  However,  significant  improvements  in  both  prevention  and  treatment  of  RDS  over  the  last  4  decades  have  markedly  reduced  mortality.  As  a  consequence,  the  focus  of  improving  outcome  has  now  shifted  from  mortality  to  preventing  (pulmonary)  morbidity  following  RDS  and  its  treatment.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/20
UR  - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182920851
ER  -