thus could be given by injection. Robertson pointed out that vitamin K became the second standard treatment for all newborn infants: “The prophylactic use of vitamin K in newborns began in the early 1940s and was the second routine pharmacological treatment of newborn infants; the first being the use of silver nitrate to prevent ophthalmia neonatorum.” [63, p53]
time that autoradiography revealed high blood-flow and metabolism in the inferior colliculi and other subcortical structures affected in kernicterus. Why have these elegant studies of brain activity been so neglected? Vitamin K continues to be part of accepted practice even though its routine administration to all newborns continues to be controversial, and rightfully so [62, 63]. |
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