Gastric Suction: A Proposed Additional Technic for the Prevention of Asphyxia in Infants Delivered by Cesarean Section

Abstract

IN THE course of a study involving approximately 500 infants born to diabetic mothers,¹ it became evident that respiratory difficulty, consisting of increased respiratory rate, cyanosis and retraction of the soft parts of the chest, was the most consistent abnormal finding in the neonatal course of these infants. These signs were frequently present at birth but also appeared several hours after birth and could not be correlated with hypoglycemia, cerebral injury or atelectasis, or with the cardiac hypertrophy that Miller² has found in such infants. The great majority of these infants had been delivered by cesarean section; it is well . . .