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suctioning
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newman <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Tue, 2 Feb 1999 06:56:05 -0500
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Widstrom AM, Ransjo-Arvidson AB, Christensson AS, et all. Gastric suction in
healthy newborn infants. Acta Paediatr Scand 1987;76:566-72

There is also a Swedish study that shows that a combination of suctioning
and the use of demerol have added effects, but I can't find it.

There is evidence and I've seen it myself that routine suctioning sometimes
causes a baby to go apneic.  Neonatologists here in Toronto went around
talking about not doing routine suctioning.

Any *routine* intervention, of course, needs to be justified by the
literature, not the other way around.

Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC

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