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Professor Peter Dunn, paediatrician who improved the care of newborn babies – obituary
He developed standards of care which improved survival rates and was one of the first to use CPAP for babies in respiratory distress
Peter Dunn
Credit: Wellcome Library, London
Professor Peter Dunn, who has died at the age of 92, was a paediatrician whose work contributed greatly to survival rates of newborn babies and was a driving force in establishing regional networks of care; in 1950, 40 of every 1000 babies born alive died within seven days. Today it is eight.
Peter Dunn was born on June 23 1929 in Birmingham. His father, an orthopaedic surgeon, died when he was 10; his mother was an ex- VAD nurse. After Marlborough and undergraduate studies in St John’s College, Cambridge, Peter took the unusual step of moving to Birmingham for his clinical studies.