A premature infant is admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit with respiratory distress syndrome and requires assisted ventilation. The parents asks the nurse, "Why won't our baby breath on its own?" What is the nurse's best response?"Your infant's cardiovascular system is not developed yet in order to sustain respiration.""Most preterm infants require additional oxygen through ventilation to sustain respiration.""Premature infants have a respiratory system that takes time to adjust to extrauterine life.""Your infant cannot sustain respirations yet due to the lack of assistance from surfactant."

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