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• 1.   Surfactants: past, present and future

  This article discusses surfactant therapy as a contribution to care of the preterm newborn during the past 25 years.

  

  Abstract:

  In 1929 Kurt von Neergaard performed experiments suggesting the presence of pulmonary surfactant and its relevance to the newborn's first breath. Almost 25 years later, Richard Pattle, John Clements and Chris Macklin, each working on the effects of nerve gases on the lungs, contributed to the understanding of the physiology of pulmonary surfactant. About 5 years later Mary Ellen Avery more...

  Geography:

  Northern Ireland

  J Perinatol, Vol: 28 Suppl 1 Page: S47-56 May 2008
  H. L. Halliday

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