The Use and Misuse of Oxygen During the Neonatal Period

• Autores: Máximo Vento Torres, Javier Escobar Soto, María Cernada Badía, Raquel Escrig, Marta Aguar
• Localización: Clinics in Perinatology, ISSN 0095-5108, Vol. 39, Nº. 1, 2012, págs. 165-176
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article describes aerobic metabolism, oxygen free radicals, antioxidant defenses, oxidative stress, inflammatory response and redox signaling, the fetal to neonatal transition, arterial oxygen saturation, oxygen administration in the delivery room, oxygen during neonatal care in the NICU, evolving oxygen needs in the first few weeks of life, and complications that can occur when infants go home from the hospital on oxygen.