PHYSIOLOGIC AND CHEMICAL RESPONSE OF PREMATURE INFANTS TO OXYGEN-ENRICHED ATMOSPHERE
- 1 July 1950
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in Pediatrics
- Vol. 6 (1), 55-71
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.6.1.55
Abstract
Most premature infants breathe, while in air, as if suffering from O2 lack, yet do not have a strikingly reduced arterial O2 saturation. Admn. of O2 corrects this type of breathing and causes a relative hyperpnea and increased pulmonary ventilation.Keywords
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