Oxygen supplementation to stabilize preterm infants in the fetal to neonatal transition: no satisfactory answer.

Oxygen supplementation to stabilize preterm infants in the fetal to neonatal transition: no satisfactory answer.

Fetal life elapses in a relatively low oxygen environment. Immediately after birth with the initiation of breathing the lung expands and oxygen availability to tissue rises by twofold generating a physiologic oxidative stress. However, both lung anatomy and function and the antioxidant defense syst...

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Main Authors: Isabel eTorres-Cuevas, Maria eCernada, Antonio eNuñez, Javier eEscobar, Julia eKuligowski, Consuelo eChafer-Pericas, MAXIMO eVENTO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Pediatrics
Subjects:
Free Radicals
Oxygen
prematurity
pulse oximetry
Saturation
fetal-to-neonatal transition
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fped.2016.00029/full

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