PEDIATRICS Vol. 34 No. 5 November 1964, pp. 743
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow P3Rs: Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when P3Rs are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow E-mail this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My File Cabinet
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via CrossRef
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by COOK, C. D.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by COOK, C. D.

The Lung and Its Disorders in the Newborn Infant (Volume I in the series, Major Problems in Clinical Pediatrics)

CHARLES D. COOK M.D.

In the past decade or two it has become apparent that disorders of the respiratory system represent the single most important cause of death of the newborn infant. The work on experimental animals by Barcroft and his coworkers, and subsequently by Dawes and his associates, has done much to clarify the critical physiologic adjustments of the cardiopulmonary system at the time of birth. Cross has extended physiologic investigations to the human newborn infant. In recent years a number of investigators have applied similar techniques to the study of abnormal neonatal respiratory adaptions.