‘Rescue Dose’ of Antenatal Steroids Lowers Morbidity: No decrease in head circumference seen.

SAN DIEGO — Babies born before 34 weeks' gestation to mothers who received one rescue course of antenatal corticosteroids had a 31% reduction in composite neonatal morbidity, compared with their counterparts whose mothers did not receive the drugs, results of a 5-year multicenter study showed.