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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
College/Unit
School of Medicine
Department/Program/Center
Medicine
Abstract
Background
Almost one million prematurely born infants die annually from respiratory insufficiency, pre- dominantly in countries with limited access to respiratory support for neonates. The primary hypothesis tested in the present study was that a modified device for bubble nasal continu- ous positive airway pressure (Bn-CPAP) would provide lower work of spontaneous breath- ing, estimated by esophageal pressure-rate products.
Methods
Infants born
Results
All 40 infants enrolled completed the study and follow-up through 36 wks post menstrual age or hospital discharge, whichever came first. No infants were on supplemental oxygen at completion of follow-up. No infants developed pneumothoraces or nasal trauma, and no adverse events attributed to the study were observed. Pressure-rate products on the two devices were not different, but effort of breathing, assessed by areas under esophageal pressure-time curves, was lower with Seattle-PAP than with standard Bn-CPAP.
Conclusion
Use of Seattle-PAP to implement Bn-CPAP lowers the effort of breathing exerted even by relatively healthy spontaneously breathing premature neonates. Whether the lower effort of breathing observed with Seattle-PAP translates to improvements in neonatal mortality or morbidity will need to be determined by studies in appropriate patient populations.
Digital Commons Citation
Welty, Stephen E.; Rusin, Craig G.; Stanberry, Larissa I.; Mandy, George T.; Gest, Alfred L.; Ford, Jeremy M.; Backes, Carl H. Jr; Richardson, C. Peter; Howard, Christopher R.; Hansen, Thomas N.; and Smith, Charles V., "Short term evaluation of respiratory effort by premature infants supported with bubble nasal continuous airway pressure using Seattle-PAP and a standard bubble device" (2018). Faculty & Staff Scholarship. 1737.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/faculty_publications/1737
Source Citation
Welty SE, Rusin CG, Stanberry LI, Mandy GT, Gest AL, Ford JM, et al. (2018) Short term evaluation of respiratory effort by premature infants supported with bubble nasal continuous airway pressure using Seattle-PAP and a standard bubble device. PLoS ONE 13(3): e0193807. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193807
Comments
© 2018 Welty et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.