Determination of Lung Maturity and Prediction of RDS at Birth

The overall objective is to identify quickly after birth the preterm infants who will develop respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) for the purpose of treating them as early as possible with surfactant, to reduce, and if possible, to avoid sequelae, including long-term oxygen treatment. We have therefore developed a quick test, which we believe will be ideal for this type of diagnostics, and will now test the method in a preclinical trial.