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This is a short account of the history of resuscitation of newborn infants. Our current methods and approach to resuscitation now seem to us so reasonable and straightforward that we may find it hard to understand why our current methods were so long in becoming established, and — stranger still — why, even today, crude and ineffective measures of resuscitation are still being practiced.
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Hyman, A.I. (1985). History of Resuscitation of Newborn Infants. In: Rupreht, J., van Lieburg, M.J., Lee, J.A., Erdmann, W. (eds) Anaesthesia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69636-7_31
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