PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - M. I. A. Omer
AU  - Evelyn Robson
AU  - G. A. Neligan
TI  - Can initial resuscitation of preterm babies reduce the death rate from hyaline membrane disease?
AID  - 10.1136/adc.49.3.219
DP  - 1974 Mar 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood
PG  - 219--221
VI  - 49
IP  - 3
4099  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/49/3/219.short
4100  - http://adc.bmj.com/content/49/3/219.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child1974 Mar 01; 49
AB  - Retrospective analysis of the case records of 465 babies with a birthweight between 1·0 kg and 2·0 kg, born during 1960-67, showed that 17·9% were described as `blue' on arrival in the special care nursery, and that their mortality from hyaline membrane disease was 28·9% as compared with 6·8% in those described as `pink'. The overall mortality from hyaline membrane disease was 10·8%. After the adoption of a policy of earlier use of oxygen under intermittent positive pressure, and more careful supervision of the environmental conditions during transfer to the nursery, the proportion of babies described as `blue' on arrival fell to 5·4% (a statistically significant improvement), and the overall mortality from hyaline membrane disease fell to 6·5% (not a significant improvement on the numbers available so far).