Resuscitation 2
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Within 5 years of its detection, oxygen was applied to resuscitate neonates from 1780 onwards. It rapidly gained general acceptance, and infiltrated delivery rooms and, a century later, neonatal special care units. After over 240 years without scientific evidence, the use of oxygen for neonatal resuscitation is being questioned. Continuous distending airway pressure for oxygen administration was available at the beginning of the 20th century, but was not widely accepted. Alkali and analeptic drugs gained widespread but short-lived use after World War II.