TREATMENT OF ASPHYXIA IN THE NEW-BORN
- 15 September 1928
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 91 (11) , 788-791
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1928.02700110020006
Abstract
Dr. Yandell Henderson's article "The Prevention and Treatment of Asphyxia in the New-Born"1is a friendly challenge to the physician to do better work in resuscitation than he has done in the past, or to yield to the supremacy of the fire department. If the physician is to be more successful in meeting these opportunities to save life, he should bring into play his specialized knowledge of internal and external respiration and place himself in a position wherein this knowledge may be applied by becoming intimately acquainted with the anatomy of the upper airway, pharynx, hypopharynx and larynx as it appears with and without its reflexes. Familiarity with this field may readily be acquired in the anesthetized patient, in the cadaver, and, where the baby is concerned, in a new-born still-born child. Dr. Henderson has covered the field of internal respiration with the thoroughness that is characteristic of allKeywords
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