A full-term pregnancy lasts 40 weeks. This gives the fetus time to grow. At 40 weeks, the organs are usually fully developed. If a baby is born too early, the lungs may not be fully developed, and ...

Surfactant therapy has become a routine for neonatal respiratory care and already proved to reduce morbidity and mortality in neonatal respiratory distress syndrome. The surfactant replacement has ...

Infants who are born at 34 to 36 weeks of gestation (late preterm) are at greater risk for adverse respiratory and other outcomes than those born at 37 weeks of gestation or later. It is not known ...

Surfactant reduces mortality rate in neonatal respiratory failure, but more study is needed to increase survival rates of premature infants with respiratory distress and infection, according to a ...

Background: Severe hypoxic respiratory failure is a leading cause of neonatal mortality in Chile. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation improves survival in neonates with hypoxic respiratory failure.

Doha, Qatar: Sidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, will host its first Neonatal Respiratory Care Conference from November 13 to 15, 2025 in Doha. Themed as “Tiny Breaths, Big Futures: Updates ...

Using corticosteroids in mothers at risk for late preterm delivery reduced the incidence of severe respiratory complications in their babies, new research indicates. The new study enrolled more than 2 ...

A gene change may explain why some newborn babies struggle for breath, and could lead to genetic biomarker-based tests to warn of the risk. Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) is a breathing ...

Use of antenatal corticosteroid in twin pregnancies at risk of late preterm delivery reduced the risk of severe neonatal respiratory morbidity. Risk was only reduced in neonates delivered between 12 ...

The fetus is an allograft onto the mother and is at risk of rejection, so there is a strong T helper 2 (T H 2)-cell bias to fetal innate immune responses, a tendency also initially manifest in the ...

A newborn’s respiratory rate should always fall within a healthy range, typically 40–60 breaths per minute. They typically breathe faster than adults and older children and may breathe slower when ...