Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Of respiratory disease.   May also be referred to as hyaline membrane disease and respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn.

An acute lung disease of the newborn (especially the premature newborn); lungs cannot expand because of a wetting agent is lacking; characterized by rapid shallow breathing and cyanosis and the formation of a glassy hyaline membrane over the alveoli.

This concept's ID is @1~71269