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Improving Care for Newborns with Respiratory Distress in Nigeria Through Use of Bubble Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Devices

Publish Date: March 2019
Author: MCSP

From August 2016 through June 2018, MCSP in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH), members from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), as well as select professional associations in Nigeria, namely PAN (Pediatric Association of Nigeria) and NISONM (Nigeria Society of Neonatal Medicine), conducted a pilot study on the introduction of Pumani bubble continuous positive airway pressure (bCPAP) in seven hospitals across three States of Nigeria.


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