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You have been given surfactant.

Surfactant is a viscous blend of proteins and fats in the pulmonary alveoli. In the lungs, the airways branch out like a tree does, and they end in the alveoli. In the alveoli, oxygen is absorbed into the blood and carbon dioxide is released to be breathed out.

Surfactant helps breathing in different ways. For example, it prevents the alveoli from collapsing when breathing out.

You should be aware that medicines can have different uses. So a medicine may be used to treat different conditions.

A medicine’s uses can change over time. Unfortunately we cannot, here, always specify all of a medicine’s current uses. So, to avoid giving you incorrect or out-of-date information, we do not given any information here about the medicine’s use.