Oxygen therapy in the newborn period represents a challenge
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After the experiments of Scheele, Priestly and especially Lavoisier, oxygen quickly came into use in adult medicine. When oxygen was introduced in newborn medicine almost 100 years ago, no critical questions seemed to be raised. When the relation between retinal damage (retinopathy of prematurity = ROP) and high oxygen in premature infants was detected more than 50 years ago, this resulted in a more careful approach regarding oxygen supplementation in these babies.
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