Is It Necessary to Heat and Humidify Respiratory Gases for Resuscitation in Preterm Infants?

In this volume of The Journal, McGrory et al report the results of a well-designed multicenter randomized controlled trial designed to determine whether the use of heated and humidified gases for respiratory support during the stabilization and transport of infants <30 weeks of gestational age in the delivery room reduces the rate of hypothermia on admission to the neonatal intensive care unit.1 Fewer infants in the heated and humidified respiratory gases group were hypothermic on admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (36 of 132 or 27%) compared with controls (61 of 141 or 43%, P < .01).

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