Sustained inflation at birth did not alter lung injury from mechanical ventilation in surfactant-treated fetal lambs.

<h4>Background</h4>Sustained inflations (SI) are used with the initiation of ventilation at birth to rapidly recruit functional residual capacity and may decrease lung injury and the need for mechanical ventilation in preterm infants. However, a 20 second SI in surfactant-deficient prete...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Noah H Hillman, Matthew W Kemp, Yuichiro Miura, Suhas G Kallapur, Alan H Jobe
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Online Access:	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0113473&type=printable