title: The development of surfactant replacement therapy and the various types of replacement surfactants.
abstract: This overview has been intended to ease the reader who is not familiar with the surfactant replacement field into this area. The discussion of various surfactants should help in the clarification of terminology use by different authors and provides a perspective for the following articles, which deal more completely with many of the issues raised in this article.
mesh_terms: D015060:1,2-Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000653:Amniotic Fluid; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants / Q000502:physiology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012127:Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn / Q000628:therapy*; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation
chemical_list: D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants; D015060:1,2-Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine