Adaptation for life after birth: a review of neonatal physiology

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• 作者：Daniel Riviere ; Christopher J.D. McKinlay ; Frank H. Bloomfield
• 关键词：Development ; neonate ; transitional physiology
• 刊名：Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：18
• 期：2
• 页码：59-67
• 全文大小：479 K
• 卷排序：18

文摘

Life as a fetus is very different from life after birth. The neonatal period (first 28 days of life or 44 weeks postconception age) is a period of dramatic and rapid physiological changes. These vary from the immediate adaptations to extrauterine life to a consequent gradual maturation of organ function. Questions still exist around this transition concerning the optimal oxygen concentration during resuscitation, methods of respiratory support, facilitation of cardiovascular changes, identification of at-risk infants for problems such as hypoglycaemia and hypothermia, and the role of therapeutic hypothermia. This article combines well established and contemporary information to summarize a systems-based approach to traditional neonatal physiology.