respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Today, the treatment of patients with acute RDS remains supportive; the syndrome remains a problem that has defied a satisfactory solution since its description nearly a quarter of a century ago.’ The conference was sponsored by the Respiratory Distress Syndrome Foundation,* in conjunction with the Division of Lung Diseases of the National Heart, Lung and B...

Introduction: Repeat antenatal corticosteroids may reduce respiratory distress syndrome however there is conflicting evidence suggesting it may be unnecessary or harmful. This article reviews the literature to examine the role of multiple courses of antenatal steroids to prevent neonatal respiratory distress syndrome. Methods: Electronic databases were searched online. Results: Four randomised ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of hypertensive disease of pregnancy (HDP) on the development of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in preterm neonates. DESIGN A retrospective cohort study. SETTING All neonatal intensive care units in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. PATIENTS A total of 18,845 preterm neonates aged between 24 and 36 weeks gestation admitted to the un...

Received June 28, 2000 Pulmonary surfactant is routinely used in immature newborns for the prevention and treatment of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). Inhaled nitric oxide (INO) is a new respiratory therapy, recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration, for selective pulmonary vasodilation in persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborns (PPHN) and in hypoxic respiratory failu...

Background Late preterm (LP) infants [gestational age (GA): 3436 weeks] are at increased risk of neonatal acute respiratory morbidity compared with term infants (GA: 3741) [1,2]. The observed rate of acute respiratory morbidity, in a population of about 20,000 LP infants, was 10-12% vs 1.4% of term infants [1]. Transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTN) and respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) are...

BACKGROUND Late preterm infants (34-36 weeks' gestation) remain a population at risk for apnea of prematurity (AOP). As infants affected by respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) have immature lungs, they might also have immature control of breathing. Our hypothesis is that an association exists between RDS and AOP in late preterm infants. OBJECTIVE The primary objective of this study was to ass...

Objective : To identify which factors can predict INSURE failure in preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome. Study design : A retropective analysis of the prenatal histories, clinical courses and paraclinical data of all inborn infants (birth weight < 2000g) with respiratory distress syndrome treated with INSURE method. Infants were categorized into 2 groups : "INSURE failure group" ...