{"id":1538,"date":"2017-11-29T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2017-12-12T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T23:14:51","slug":"helping-tiny-babies-to-breathe-after-birth-short-and-long-term-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2017\/11\/29\/helping-tiny-babies-to-breathe-after-birth-short-and-long-term-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping tiny babies to breathe after birth \u2013 short- and long-term consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/246732278\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Grand Rounds 29 November 2017\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before the advent of modern neonatal intensive care in the 1970s, many tiny babies died soon after birth, most commonly because they lacked pulmonary surfactant, leading to respiratory failure.\u00a0 Professor Lex Doyle first treated the breathing problems of tiny babies in the mid-1970s during his basic training in paediatrics.\u00a0 Techniques for assisting breathing after birth were embryonic, and the results were not particularly good.\u00a0 As the unique requirements for tiny babies were better appreciated, and as the equipment and technology improved, many more survived.\u00a0 However, not all have survived without ongoing health problems.\u00a0 During this Grand Round, Lex will describe the changes in neonatal intensive care and how they have affected the short-term and long-term outcomes for tiny babies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lex W Doyle<\/strong>, MD, MSc, FRACP, is Professor of Paediatrics in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne.\u00a0 After training in neonatal paediatrics in Melbourne in the 1970s, and at McMaster University in Canada from 1979 to 1982, from 1983 he has been based at the Royal Women\u2019s Hospital in Melbourne.\u00a0 His major research interest has been in the long-term outcomes of very tiny or preterm infants.\u00a0 He participates with colleagues in determining their outcomes into adulthood, and has been involved in many randomised controlled trials of interventions before, during and after birth designed to improve their long-term health.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the advent of modern neonatal intensive care in the 1970s, many tiny babies died soon after birth, most commonly because they lacked pulmonary surfactant, leading to respiratory failure.\u00a0 Professor Lex Doyle first treated the breathing problems of tiny babies in the mid-1970s during his basic training in paediatrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10993,7941,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neonatal","category-respiratory","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}