data linkages, primarily among death certificates, law enforcement records, and medical examiner and coroner records. Also variably incorporating such optional supplements as laboratory reports and hospital records, the NVDRS provides de-identified information about suicide and other violent deaths, including their geographic location, circumstances, and personal sociodemographics, in addition to investigation specifics \[[@pone.0197805.ref042]--[@pone.0197805.ref044]\]. Disaggregatable to county of death, the data analyzed in this study represented the 17 states that participated in the NVDRS throughout the 2011--2013 observation period. They were Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Enhancing study generalizability, these states mirrored the nation in their age and sex composition, manner-of-death distribution, and crude and age-adjusted all-cause, suicide, and undetermined intent deathSustained Inflation and Its Role in the Delivery Room Management of Preterm Infants.
A noninvasive approach in the delivery room in place of intubation and mechanical ventilation can reduce rates of bronchopulmonary dysplasia and death. Nevertheless, the rate of nasal continuous positive airway pressure failure still remains high. In order to prevent lung injury and to enhance the success of continuous positive airway pressure, sustained inflation (administration by face mask or nasopharyngeal tube of a high peak pressure of 20-25 cm H2O, maintained for 10-15 s) has been recently proposed to establish an early and efficient functional residual capacity in the delivery room. Sustained inflation is an intriguing therapy, although the results of clinical trials are controversial in terms of respiratory outcomes. A critical role in the success of