Bringing the newborn home is such a special and emotional experience for parents, and yet with it come some unexpected challenges. One concern is Newborn Respiratory Distress Syndrome, wherein the ...

Infants can be overstimulated by all of the sights, sounds and movement surrounding them. When you observe your baby intently ...

The nSOFA score predicts prolonged mechanical ventilation in newborns with NRDS. Early risk stratification may improve NICU care.

Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in preterm infants. This condition stems primarily from an insufficiency in pulmonary surfactant, a ...

Prenatal exposure to air pollution increases the risk of severe respiratory distress in newborn babies, according to new research. The risk increases with exposure specifically to fine particulate ...

Transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTN) is a short-lived condition of fast breathing that affects newborn babies and usually resolves after 3 or 4 days after birth. Though rapid breathing in a ...

TARZANA, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- RSV cases are pummeling pediatric wards across the country, including here in Southern California. Children's Hospital of Orange County had to expand capacity in their ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As prenatal PM 2.5 exposure rose, so did the odds for assisted ventilation, multiple interventions and systemic ...

An infant tracheostomy is a medical procedure to create an opening in the neck to insert a tube into an infant’s windpipe, or trachea. Tracheostomies allow air to enter the lungs directly, bypassing ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Erie County’s Commissioner of Health, Dr. Gale Burstein, is a pediatrician, and she says there’s recently been “an unusual number” of childhood deaths pertaining to respiratory ...

Bhadrachalam: Twinfemale infants born preterm with low birth weight and respiratory distress syndrome were successfully ...