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.
William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton was the President of the United States in 1996. Bill Clinton (born August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas) served as the forty-second President o â¦ f the United States, serving between January 20, 1993 and January 20, 2001, including the whole of 1996.utherfor â¦ d B. Hayes (born October 4, 1822 in Delaware, Ohio; died January 17, 1893 in Fremont, Ohio) succeeded Ulysses S. Grant as the nineteenth President of the United States, serving between March 4, 1877 and March 4, 1881.