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A1 MATHIEU A, HOLMAN A
T1 REsuscitation of the asphyxiated new-born
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD June 8
VO 92
IS 23
SP 1917
OP 1918
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700490017005
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700490017005
AB A recital of the methods of resuscitation of the asphyxiated new-born in vogue at present sounds like a chapter from "Mother India." Nowhere in present-day medicine can one see such antiquated, unscientific and haphazard procedures as those practiced in the attempt to induce the new-born child to take its first breath.The constantly repeated dictum that childbirth is a normal physiologic function has led to the belief that any method of resuscitation practiced by animals or by the ancients should suffice in the case of the human offspring. We hold that, in most places, attempts at resuscitation as practiced in present-day obstetrics are either futile gestures or actual deterrents that defeat their own purpose, and we insist that beating, slapping and manhandling a delicate human body in its first fifteen minutes of life is not only needless but, indeed, extremely harmful. Dashing a new-born infant into ice-water, swinging it through