Topic summary
Neonatal care
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Neonatal nursing.
Changes in neonatal care
Neonatal care became a specialty in the United States in 1960 and in that same year, the first NICU was established in the United States. There have been some major changes in Neonatal Care over the past 120 years. Some of these changes include the invention of the incubator, changes in respiratory care and the development of surfactants.