The first clinical study of a low-cost neonatal breathing system demonstrated that the device increased the survival rate of newborns with severe respiratory illness from 44 percent to 71 percent. A ...

To compare the failure rates between Jet continuous positive airway pressure device (J-CPAP-variable flow) and Bubble continuous positive airway device (B-CPAP) in preterm infants with respiratory ...

There's only one thing better than having a good idea, and that's having a good idea that really works. Earlier this year, I reported on some students at Rice University who had designed a low-cost ...

The FDA slapped the April 15 recall of Fisher & Paykel Healthcare's Infant Nasal CPAP Prongs and Bubble CPAP Starter Kits with its most severe label, meaning the now Class I recall involves ...

Extending the use of a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment in premature infants by two weeks significantly increases lung volume and lung diffusion capacity, according to a new study.

To evaluate accuracy of mid-forehead (MFH) thermometry compared with digital axilla (DAT) temperatures in infants in newborn intensive care. In all, 783 readings were obtained in 100 infants with a ...

Are there strategies we can use to prevent or minimize BPD? Various reports from centers are beginning to suggest that there are modes of ventilation (permissive hypercarbia) and even nonventilation ...

ON HIS first night as a trainee paediatrician in Sylhet, Bangladesh, Mohamad Chisti (pictured above) watched three children die of pneumonia. Oxygen was being delivered to them, through a face mask or ...