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Newborn respiratory tract diseases: surfactant therapy

Canada

• British Columbia Perinatal Health Program
  • Surfactant Replacement Therapy in Neonates [2003]

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Recommendations for neonatal surfactant therapy [2005]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Synthetic surfactant for respiratory distress syndrome in preterm infants [2009]
  • Surfactant for pulmonary hemorrhage in neonates [2009]
  • Prophylactic versus selective use of surfactant in preventing morbidity and mortality in preterm infants [2009]
  • Prophylactic synthetic surfactant for preventing morbidity and mortality in preterm infants [2009]
  • Prophylactic natural surfactant extract for preventing morbidity and mortality in preterm infants [2009]
  • Natural surfactant extract versus synthetic surfactant for neonatal respiratory distress syndrome [2009]
  • Multiple versus single dose natural surfactant extract for severe neonatal respiratory distress syndrome [2009]
  • Early versus delayed selective surfactant treatment for neonatal respiratory distress syndrome [2009]
  • Early surfactant administration with brief ventilation vs selective surfactant and continued mechanical ventilation for preterm infants with or at risk for respiratory distress syndrome [2009]

New Zealand

• Auckland District Health Board
  • Exogenous Surfactant Use [2006]

United States of America

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Surfactant-Replacement Therapy for Respiratory Distress in the Preterm and Term Neonate [2008]

• American Thoracic Society
  • Mechanisms and Limits of Induced Postnatal Lung Growth [2004]

• University of Michigan Evidence-Based Pediatrics
  • Surfactant Has Some Benefit in Acute Lung Injury [2005]

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• Guidelines
  • Newborn respiratory tract diseases