By the 1970s, negative pressure tanks were replaced by positive pressure machines and later, surfactants from animal lungs improved survival rates of premature babies with severe respiratory disease.
Dr. Stahlman's proficiency in threading tiny catheters into newborns' umbilical vessels to monitor blood oxygen exemplifies her early expertise in the field of neonatology.
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