The Importance of Surfactant in Neonatology

There's a lot of things that certainly don't work. There's some things that are evidenced. You know, I recently saw people describe treatments in neonatology as, you know, things that were maybe a little bit foolish to pursue, but at least we're in a bad idea and then things that were clearly a bad idea. So surfactant does not decrease rates of VPD. It improves RDS, which we think will minimize how much ventilator exposure these kids get. caffeine is actually a sort of like quality improvement bundles and mainstay at improving rates in BPD. Diuretics has never been shown to reduce lung disease; there's all the medications that we