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Is 100% oxygen necessary for the resuscitation of newborn infants?
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This paper reproduces in detail the debate 'pro-and-con' regarding the use of 100% oxygen or room air in the resuscitation of the asphyxiated newly horn infants, celebrated in Oslo at the 2002 European Association of Perinatal Medicine (EAPM) meeting, in which both co-authors participated as featured speakers. The authors describe their arguments which are based on medical tradition, clinical experience, basic science, and prospective randomized and pseudo-randomized clinical studies that hav...
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