Respiratory distress in the first few hours of life is a growing disease burden in otherwise
healthy babies born at term (> 37 weeks gestation). Babies born by cesarean section without …

Background Respiratory distress is common during transition after birth, but the effect of
continuous positive airway pressure applied in the delivery room has not been …

Background As very preterm infants have surfactant-deficient and highly incompliant lungs,
slowing lung deflation during expiration might help preserve functional residual capacity …

Respiratory distress is relatively common in infants born at or near-term, particularly in
infants delivered following elective cesarean section. The pathophysiology underlying …

Airway liquid is cleared into lung tissue after birth, which becomes edematous and forces the
chest wall to expand to accommodate both the cleared liquid and incoming air. This study …

Introduction As airway liquid is cleared into lung interstitial tissue after birth, the chest wall
must expand to accommodate this liquid and the incoming air. We examined the effect of …

Introduction Recent evidence indicates that respiratory distress (RD) in near-term infants is
caused by elevated airway liquid (EL) volume at the beginning of air-breathing after birth …

Lung aeration triggers the cardiovascular transition at birth by decreasing pulmonary
vascular resistance, making it the primary underlying event that initiates the fetal to neonatal …

Introduction Preterm infants close to viability commonly require mechanical ventilation (MV)
for respiratory distress syndrome. Despite commonly used lung‐sparing ventilation …

The pulmonary surfactant system is uniquely positioned to meet the physical and
environmental challenges associated with the transition to air-breathing at birth and to …