The newborn infant

Changes in Heart Size in the Dyspnoeic Newborn Baby

“…Dyspnoea Uncertainty of the origins of dyspnoea in the newborn is reflected in terminology. Thus we have congestive pulmonary failure (Potter, 1953), pulmonary syndrome of the newborn (Bound et al, 1956), and hyaline membrane syndrome (Parmelee, 1952;Arey and Dent, 1953), or disease (Berfenstam et al, 1958). Premature babies have usually been considered separately from those born at term.…”

Infant Deaths Associated with Tight Umbilical Binders

“…The need for umbilical binders in the newborn is apparently only tradition. Binders are not advocated by pediatricians in charge of lying-in wards (Parmelee 1952, American Academy of Pediatrics 1957, Corner 1960, McKay & Smith 1964. It is significant that in a series of over 3,000 perinatal autopsies on hospital deaths, I have not seen a possible tight-binder death.…”