Patient's question:
Premature infants may develop respiratory distress syndrome after birth and require mechanical ventilation treatment. During this period, they may develop pulmonary edema. After receiving invasive mechanical ventilation treatment, their condition stabilized. Please ask whether there is a risk of brain hypoxia in newborns during the stage of pulmonary edema?Doctor's answer:
Every premature baby's lungs have not fully developed, and the lack of surfactant in the lungs leads to atelectasis, which affects the baby's breathing. Neonatal white lung, also known as neonatal respiratory distress syndrome or neonatal hyaline membrane disease, is a very serious condition. As for your question about how the brain could be affected by water aspiration, it depends on the duration of water aspiration during the breathing difficulties. If the baby has experienced significant water aspiration, it may lead to such problems. Parents need to work well with the doctor in the treatment.