RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Postnatal cardiovascular adaptation
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
JO Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP F220
OP F224
DO 10.1136/archdischild-2017-314453
VO 104
IS 2
A1 Andrew William Gill
YR 2019
UL http://fn.bmj.com/content/104/2/F220.abstract
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.