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Every year in the UK more than 1,000 otherwise healthy babies born at full term die or suffer brain injury caused by a lack of oxygen or blood supply at birth.
The xenon technique was developed by Marianne Thoreson, professor of neonatal neuroscience at the University of Bristol, and Dr John Dingley, consultant anaesthetist at Swansea University's School of Medicine.
First baby given xenon gas to prevent brain injury
Seeded on Fri Apr 9, 2010 1:32 PM EDT
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This is one of the greatest new techniques ever expermented in modern time . If it is fully successful it will save thousands of world babies who incounter birth difficultie ending up in birth asphyxia and death. Old techniques are not fit enough to save babies because brain damage occurs in few minutes before the delivered baby can be handled
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