About how many neonatal patients with MAS will require mechanical ventilation?

a. 50%
b. 30%
c. 10% to 15%
d. 4%


B
Only about 30% of the infants who have MAS will require mechanical ventilation. About 10% to 15% may develop a pneumothorax. MAS has about a 4% mortality rate.

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