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Surfactant therapy for respiratory failure due to near-drowning
1Department of Paediatrics, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Japan.
European Journal of Pediatrics
|May 1, 1996
Abstract:
We report a nearly drowned 3-year-old boy who was treated successfully with exogenous bovine surfactant. Exogenous surfactant should be administered to patients with refractory respiratory failure based on the pulmonary pathophysiology in near-drowning.