Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome is a condition of advancing respiratory distress, commencing at or shortly after birth. The disease follows an acute course, with deterioration within 48 hours followed by stabilisation and improvement. Treatment is to support respiratory function and maintain good oxygenation.

Background Neonatal mortality rate is one of the main indicators of health care systems in each country. The first step in improving the level of these indicators is to identify the causes of neonatal dead and its related factors. In this study, the causes of neonatal mortality and its related factors in neonatal intensive care unit at Imam Reza hospital were investigated. Materials and Method...

acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards) is a potential complication of cardiac surgery, given that patients undergoing cabg frequently have hypoxemia and pulmonary dysfunction during initial hours after surgery. thus, ards criteria in these patients are more likely to be positive while these criteria may not match the patient`s clinical picture. we aimed to investigate frequency of rapid ons...

large preterm infants are generally not considered good candidates for surfactant treatment until they have been intubated for progressing respiratory distress. this study has been done to detect the effect of electively providing early single-dose surfactant to large preterm babies with mild to moderate respiratory distress syndrome (rds). a randomized clinical trial was performed on 45 infant...

background respiratory distress syndrome (rds) is considered as one of the most popular prematurity-related respiratory problems and among the most prominent reasons of deaths in preterm infants. objectives brain natriuretic peptide (bnp) is the secret of the volume and pressure overload response of the vessels and decreases due to resistance as well as rises in systemic vessels and also in dec...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to compare the cost-effectiveness of 9 strategies for the management of threatened preterm labor. STUDY DESIGN We derived 6 management options from the literature. These were (1) to treat all women with tocolytics and corticosteroids ("treat all"); (2) to treat all women while awaiting results of the "traditional" fetal fibronectin test results, then ...

sareshtedari m 1 (md) , shahamat h 1 (md) , sadeghi t 2 * (msc)       1 department of pediatrics, school of medicine, qazvin university of medical sciences, qazvin, iran   2 department of pediatrics, school of nursing and midwifery, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran     received: 22 jan 2011, accepted: 23 jun 2011       abstract     introduction: regarding the importance of me...