Two Models of Perinatal Regionalization: One fashionable, Both Functional? |[dagger]| 1280

Centripetal referral of newborns requiring mechanical ventilation to tertiary NICUs has been the established model of perinatal regionalization for roughly twenty years. Data justifying this model are mostly of the same vintage. We wondered whether advances in technology, pharmacology, and skill allowed for alternative regionalization models of equivalent efficacy.