Neonatology Specialty Grand Challenge

[摘要] Historically, though high infant mortality rates were recognized by the British medical community at least as early as the 1860s, the advent of neonatal intensive care is relatively recent. In 1898, Dr. Joseph B. De Lee (1) established the first premature infant incubator station at the Chicago, Illinois Lying-in Hospital. The first American textbook on prematurity was published in 1922 (2). It was not until 1965 that the first American newborn intensive care unit (NICU) was opened at Yale University, but more importantly, only a few years later Egon Diczfalusy conceptualized the fetoplacental unit (3), which established that the fetus actively participates in its own physiologic development in utero. This represented a fundamental break with Victorian attitudes toward maternal confinement during pregnancy, and set the bar for reproductive physiology to this day.

[学科分类] 儿科学