In a healthy lung, surfactant prevents atelectasis (collapse) of alveoli. In neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (NRDS), otherwise known as hyaline membrane disease, a lack of surfactant production results in atelectasis and intrapulmonary shunting.
Below are the first 14 presidents of the United States. 1  1. Peyton Randolph (Sept. 5, 1774 â Oct. 22, 1774), (May 10, 1775 â May 24, 1775)When delegates voted in Philadelphia for the first Continental Congress, they elected Peyton Randolph as the first president of the territory known as the United States. Randolph was a planter and public official from the colony of Virginia.
10 Presidents were Presbyterian. These presidents were Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Buchanan, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harriso â¦ n, Woodrow Wilson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan.ames Buchanan   For many years in Washington, D.C. prior to the presidency, James  Buchanan lived with William Rufus King, who was earlier Vice  President under Frankli â¦ n Pierce in 1853. King was referred to by  Andrew Jackson as Miss Nancy while Aaron Brown called him  Buchanan's better half..