The use and misuse of oxygen during the neonatal period.

Autores de IIS La Fe

• Máximo Vento Torres

  Autor

• Justo Javier Escobar Cubiella

  Autor

• María Cernada Badía

  Autor

• Raquel Escrig Fernández

  Autor

• Marta Aguar Carrascosa

  Autor

Grupos

• Perinatología

Abstract

This article describes aerobic metabolism, oxygen free radicals, antioxidant defenses, oxidative stress, inflammatory response and redox signaling, the fetal to neonatal transition, arterial oxygen saturation, oxygen administration in the delivery room, oxygen during neonatal care in the NICU, evolving oxygen needs in the first few weeks of life, and complications that can occur when infants go home from the hospital on oxygen.