Article Text
Review
The roles of drug therapy given via the endotracheal tube to neonates
Abstract
Many drugs are given to intubated neonates by the inhalation route. The optimum aerosol delivery system, however, has not been identified and there are many challenges in delivering drugs effectively to the lower airways of intubated neonates. The effectiveness of surfactant in prematurely born infants and nitric oxide has been robustly investigated. Other drugs are being used on very limited evidence.
- Neonate
- Surfactant
- Pulmonary vasodilators
- Bronchodilators
Statistics from Altmetric.com
Footnotes
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
Data sharing statement The data can be open for sharing if required.