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What We Do When We Resuscitate Extremely Preterm Infants

Name / volume / issue

63641

Page number

1-3

Primary author

Jeremy R. Garrett, Brian S. Carter & John D. Lantos

Tag(s): Journal article

Abstract

Neonatal intensive care is one of the most successful medical innovations of the last half century. Every year, in the United States alone, nearly 500,000 babies are born prematurely. Before neonatal intensive care, most of those babies died, and those who survived often suffered significant life-limiting impairments. Today, most preemies survive without impairments.

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