PEDIATRICS Vol. 30 No. 1 July 1962, pp. 111-116
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LUNG VOLUME IN THE NEWBORN INFANT

M. Klaus 1, W. H. Tooley 1, K. H. Weaver 1, and J. A. Clements 1

1 The Cardiovascular Research Institute, and the Department of Pediatrics, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco

The plethysmographic technique of Du-Bois and associates has been modified for use in newborn infants and found suitable for the measurement of lung volume. Of 37 normal infants studied with this method, most achieved full functional residual capacity during the first few minutes of life.