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Alexandre Lion’s Incubator Charities in Europe (1894–1898)
By: Kelsey Locey
| Published: Mar 14, 2017
Alexandre Lion established incubator charities in the late 1890s in France to promote his infant incubator. Lion’s infant incubators kept premature…
OrganizationIncubatorsPremature InfantsPerinatologyIncubators, Infant
Corticosteroids' Effect on Fetal Lung Maturation (1972), by Sir Graham Collingwood Liggins and Ross Howie
By: Kathleen O'Connor, Erica O'Neil
| Published: Dec 19, 2012
In a clinical trial from 1969 to 1972, Sir Graham Collingwood Liggins and Ross Howie showed that if doctors treat pregnant women with corticosteroids…
Liggins, G. C.Adrenocortical hormonesPregnancyRespiratory Distress SyndromePremature Infants
Pierre Budin (1846-1907)
By: Kelsey Locey
| Published: Feb 11, 2017
Pierre Constant Budin worked in France to improve the lives of newborns and their mothers during the late nineteenth century. Budin stressed the…
Budin, P. (Pierre), 1846-1907BreastfeedingPremature InfantsBreast milkFetus
Evaluation of the Newborn Infant--Second Report (1958), by Virginia Apgar et al.
By: Carolina J. Abboud
| Published: Jun 10, 2017
Virginia Apgar and colleagues wrote “Evaluation of the Newborn Infant—Second Report” in 1958. This article explained that Apgar’s system for…
LiteratureApgar ScoreObstetricsChildbirthAnesthesiology