{"id":182958,"date":"2022-09-15T07:51:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T07:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=182958"},"modified":"2023-06-15T06:37:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T06:37:39","slug":"meconium-aspiration-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/meconium-aspiration-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Meconium aspiration syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fetal inhalation of meconium in utero during episodes of severe fetal hypoxia or with the first few breaths after birth. Symptoms and signs, which occur to varying degrees, include respiratory distress, tachypnea, rales, and wheezes throughout the lung fields. Chest x-ray examination may show areas of increased density from the aspirated meconium, evidence of chemical pneumonitis, as well as areas of atelectasis caused by bronchiolar obstruction and collapse of alveoli distally. 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Symptoms and signs, which occur to varying degrees, include respiratory distress, tachypnea, rales, and wheezes throughout the lung fields. Chest x-ray examination may show areas of increased density from the aspirated meconium, evidence of chemical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meconium aspiration syndrome - Definition of Meconium aspiration syndrome<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fetal inhalation of meconium in utero during episodes of severe fetal hypoxia or with the first few breaths after birth. 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