You are the nursery nurse caring for a 34-week newborn. You think that she is beginning to show signs of respiratory distress primarily due to insufficient production of
a. adrenal cortical ste-roids c. amino acids
b. alpha-fetoproteins d. surfactant
D
Although surfactant normally begins to be secreted in the lungs at 28 weeks gestation, it takes at least another 8 weeks for sufficient surfactant to be secreted and distributed throughout the alveoli. Adrenal cortical steroids and alpha-fetoproteins are appropriate causes for neonatal respiratory distress but are not the most likely cause in this situation. Also, amino acids is not the primary reason for neonatal respiratory distress in a preterm neonate.
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