RESUSCITATION OF THE NEW-BORN

14 March 1936

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 106 (11) , 885-890
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1936.02770110001001

Abstract

This study was prompted by the belief that many new-born babies are lost because of lack of proper treatment of asphyxia neonatorum. There has been little determined or concentrated effort to improve the method of accomplishment of normal breathing in its practical and universal application. In many maternity institutions there is still no standardized treatment or teaching of the modern conception of the theory and practice of resuscitation. Even modern textbooks on obstetrics continue to devote space and pictures to demonstrate methods of treatment that are no longer tenable. The names Byrd, Dew, Schultze, Silvester, Laborde and Prochownik belong, properly, to historical medicine. ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM The frequency of asphyxial fetal mortality is, indeed, difficult of estimation. Cruikshank¹reports, after a very exhaustive investigation of postmortem examinations of 800 cases of neonatal deaths, that 68 per cent of these were due to asphyxia neonatorum and "allied conditions." In this study

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THE DANGER OF MOUTH-TO-MOUTH BREATHING IN RESUSCITATION OF THE NEW-BORN INFANT
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1930