PEDIATRICS Vol. 87 No. 2 February 1991, pp. 269
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Early Intubation and MAS

THOMAS E. WISWELL MD1

1 Newborn Medicine Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307-5001

In Reply.—

I appreciate the comments of Dr Traverse. His opinions and practices closely reflect my own. I, too, am unaware of proven long-term sequelae which can be attributed directly to intubating meconium-stained infants once or twice.1 Additionally, I attempt to remove meconium from the upper airway in all meconium-stained infants, be they vigorous or healthy, or the meconium thick or thin. During the past 5 years, fully one third of infants with the meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) admitted to our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit had not been intubated and had their tracheae suctioned.