{"id":53,"date":"2014-11-20T18:54:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T23:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health\/?p=53"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:40:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:40:23","slug":"cdc-reports-fewer-infants-are-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/cdc-reports-fewer-infants-are-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Reports fewer infants are dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a fascinating article on a report from the CDC. It states that the death rate among infants has dropped 4 percent between 2006 and 2011. Check out the article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelihealth.com\/news\/fewer-infants-dying-than-before-cdc-reports?level=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.intelihealth.com\/news\/fewer-infants-dying-than-before-cdc-reports?level=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr David Mendez, one of the neonatologists quoted in the article, states that the drop in infant death rates is due to<br \/>\n1. The result of more women carrying to term<br \/>\n2. Improved ability to care for preterm infants<\/p>\n<p>While neonatal care is certainly not a strength of mine, I do know that some of these advances have come from the discipline of respiratory care. While not specifically mentioned in this article, I suspect that recent advances in neonatal ventilation, especially non invasive neonatal ventilation, surfactant therapy, improved resuscitation and oxygenation have contributed to some of that improved care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just read a fascinating article on a report from the CDC. It states that the death rate among infants has dropped 4 percent between 2006 and 2011. Check out the article at http:\/\/www.intelihealth.com\/news\/fewer-infants-dying-than-before-cdc-reports?level=0 Dr David Mendez, one of the neonatologists quoted in the article, states that the drop in infant death rates is due to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/cdc-reports-fewer-infants-are-dying\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CDC Reports fewer infants are dying<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-respiratory-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4838,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/4838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}