INTENSIVE CARE OF SMALL PREMATURE INFANTS

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Summary: Twenty‐seven deaths in premature infants weighing less than 1 250 g who were treated with intermittent positive pressure respiration are reported. The major pulmonary abnormalities were hyaline membrane formation, infection, and hemorrhage occurring‘ alone or in combination with intraverticular hemorrhage. Hyaline membranes were associated with severe clinical features of respiratory distress, whereas infection was not. Prolonged treatment resulted in “bronchopulmonary dysplasia” in only 1 case where severe clinical respiratory distress was associated with the finding of hyaline membranes at post mortem.