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Neonatal endotracheal intubation

Correspondence to:
J P Wyllie, Department of Neonatology, The James Cook University Hospital, Marton Road, Middlesbrough TS4 3BW, UK; jonathan.wyllie@stees.nhs.uk

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Despite the fact that neonatal endotracheal intubation was described more than 2000 years ago,¹ it was only in the 18th and 19th centuries that it began to be accepted as a worthwhile technique for ventilating lungs at birth.^2–4 Nevertheless, the practice fell out of favour and many other strange methods were used to resuscitate babies at birth.⁵ However, in the early 20th century Flagg recommended endotracheal intubation for positive pressure ventilation of newly born babies in the USA⁶ and Blaikely and Gibberd made similar recommendations in the UK in 1935.⁷ Conversely, the only trial in humans of intubation at birth compared with the standard technique of resuscitation in a pressure chamber in 1966 found no difference between the two practices.⁸ It was with the developments in artificial respiration in the 1960s and 1970s that endotracheal intubation became an established part of the developing speciality of neonatal intensive care. Although it . . . [Full text of this article]