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a knackered neonate…

July 20, 2013 By Christopher Partyka Leave a Comment

the case.

You are working in a district hospital and are called to the Special-Care Nursery to assist with an unwell newborn infant.

She was born 2 hours ago at 39 + 4 weeks gestation, to a primip mother who reports a completely unremarkable pregnancy and normal antenatal investigations (including morphology scans). The child has had marked respiratory distress and hypoxia since birth… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Airway, Anaesthesia/Analgesia, Paediatrics, Radiology Tagged With: airway, CCAM, DOPE mnemonic, foetal lung interstitial tumour, neonatal intubation, neonatal resuscitation, respiratory distress, RSI

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