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Mission, Vision, Value ||| Achievements |||| Centers of Excellence At Babies & Children's Hospital, we have been a pioneer in pediatric medicine and are proud of our many achievements. First hospital for infants (1887) First modern pediatrics tetbook (by L. Emmett Holt, 1896) First facility for premature infants (1909) Founding of the field of child neurology (1920s) Founding of the field of pediatric radiology (1930s) Development of serum therapy for Haemophilus influenzae meningitis, which saved lives before antibiotics were, introduced (1938) First pediatric psychiatric clinics (1938) First use of the sulfonamides to treat children (1938) Defined the management of glycogen storage disease (1941) Identification of the pathological characteristics of cystic fibrosis (1939) and development of the diagnostic sweat test (1940s) Development of the Apgar score for the assessment of newborns (1952) First microchemistry laboratory (1951) First use of microanalysis of blood gas for serial measurements in premature infants (late 1950s) First description of child abuse as the "Shaken Baby Syndrome" (1959) Establishment of standards for the resuscitation of the newborn in the delivery room (1960s First intrauterine surgery to perform an echange transfusion (1965) First use of intravenous alimentation in premature infants and DEVELOPMENT of standards for this form of nutrition (1970) First successful heart transplantation in a child (1984) First institution in the mid-Atlantic region to provide radio frequency ablation therapy for young patients and adolescents with intractable arrhythmias (1991) Development of Varicella vaccine licensed in the U.S. (1995)