A newborn male infant born to a 23-year-old G2P1 mother at 39 weeks gestation via NSVD (normal spontaneous vaginal delivery) came to NICU. Appropriate antenatal care and monitoring occurred throughout the pregnancy. As there were no significant antenatal problems, no prenatal ultrasonography was done. Immediately following delivery, the baby looked "normal". He cried immediately, however, at 1 minute of age, he remained very cyanotic.
The neonatal resuscitation team was called to the delivery room. At 5 minutes of age, the baby remained very cyanotic, tachypneic and dyspneic, despite 100% oxygen via mask. The resuscitation team started bag-mask positive pressure ventilation with 100% oxygen, but the baby became bradycardic, therefore he was intubated and ventilated. Auscultation of the lungs revealed good breath sounds in the right chest, but no breath sounds in the left. The…
