Ruth Guinsburg, Maria Fernanda Branco de Almeida, Junia Sampel de Castro, Walusa Assad Gonçalves-Ferri, Patricia Franco Marques, Jamil Pedro Siqueira Caldas, Vera Lucia Jornada Krebs, Ligia Maria Suppo de Souza Rugolo, João Henrique Carvalho Leme de Almeida, Jorge Hecker Luz, Renato S Procianoy, José Luiz Muniz Bandeira Duarte, Marcia Gomes Penido, Daniela Marques de Lima Mota Ferreira, Navantino Alves Filho, Edna Maria de Albuquerque Diniz, Juliana Paula Santos, Ana Lucia Acquesta, Cristina Nunes Dos Santos, Maria Rafaela Conde Gonzalez, Regina Pg Vieira Cavalcanti da Silva, Jucile Meneses, José Maria de Andrade Lopes, Franciscó Eulógio Martinez
OBJECTIVE: To verify whether the use of the T-piece resuscitator compared with the self-inflating bag in preterm infants ventilated at birth modifies survival to hospital discharge without major morbidities. DESIGN: Pragmatic prospective cohort study. SETTING: 20 Brazilian university hospitals of Brazilian Network on Neonatal Research. Patients were 1962 inborn infants in 2014-2015 ventilated at birth with 23-33' weeks gestation and birth weight 400-1499 g without malformations...
January 2018: Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition