PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gill, Andrew William
TI  - Postnatal cardiovascular adaptation
AID  - 10.1136/archdischild-2017-314453
DP  - 2019 Mar 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
PG  - F220--F224
VI  - 104
IP  - 2
4099  - http://fn.bmj.com/content/104/2/F220.short
4100  - http://fn.bmj.com/content/104/2/F220.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed2019 Mar 01; 104
AB  - The heart undergoes rapid transformations in function during the transition to extrauterine life. Our understanding of the adaptive physiology underlying this process is able to inform the clinical management of infants who are struggling to complete this complex transition. Much of our knowledge of the cardiac transition is derived from the preterm infant in whom the preparative adaptations are incomplete and clinical sequelae all too common. This review will re-examine the cardiac transition highlighting the physiology that drives it and suggest appropriate clinical intervention to support the process.