Question 20

20.   Your patient is a 29 week gestation male born to a group B negative mother that you are seeing in the delivery room.  He has no fever but has signs of respiratory distress.  His RR is 80 and Sats are 88%.   Which of the following is the best management option?

A.  Intubate the patient and administer Survanta

B.  Administer oxygen at a 100% and if the patients Sats improve to 100% leave the patient on that so they can recover.

C.  Get a capillary blood gas and observe the patient

D.  Place the patient on nasal CPAP