Suppose you're a physician treating an infant with respiratory distress syndrome. Your intervention to effect

Question

Suppose you're a physician treating an infant with respiratory distress syndrome. Your intervention to effect

Answer 1

Put infant on oxygen monitor and administer oxygen if necessary. Place infant in incubator or on "hot dog stand" - (treatment table with radiant heat and temp monitor, suction, etc.)Obtain blood gases first if possible and safe. You review mother's prenatal history; complications, if any, of labor or delivery especially premature rupture of membranes or meconium aspiration, assess gestational age. Any other signs of infection? Examine infant, assess heart and lungs. Order CBC, blood gases, chest x-ray. Consider blood culture, urine culture, lumbar puncture and CSF culture. Consider antibiotics as infection is a leading cause of RDS. Assess need for ventilator and possible administration of surfactant. Start iv fluids. Counsel the family.

Answer 2

Why are you asking for a physician's opinion on Yahoo! Answers?

Answer 3

What is the question? Anything regarding an infant needs to be answered by a doctor or nurse, not random people on the internet.

Answer 4

Would you kindly disambiguate your question, thank you.

Answer 5

IRDS - where premature babies are born with undeveloped lungs to the effect that they don't produce surfactant (which reduces the surface tension of the lungs, which decreases the effort required to breathe).

A ventilation machine needs to be used until the lungs start to produce surfactant.

Also, repost this with a finished question so that maybe people can answer what it is you want!!

Answer 6

This looks like the start of somebody's homework to me.