TY - JOUR
T1 - Duration of home monitoring for infants discharged with apnea of prematurity
AU - Tauman, Riva
AU - Sivan, Yakov
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was performed through funding provided by the National Science Foun-dation, the Robert A. Welch Foundation (PSE), the National Institutes of Health (RO1-AR44381), and the T. N. Law Professorship at Rice University (AGM). S. J. Pe- ter and L. J. Suggs acknowledge financial support by the National Institutes of Health Biotechnology Training Grant 5T32GM08362. Our thanks go to Drs Jan Post and Shanmin Zhang at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston for us access to the NMR facilities there to perform preliminary studies. We Dr. Terry Marriott for his help in acquiring the mass spectral data.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Sixty-four preterm infants with apnea of prematurity (AOP) discharged with cardiorespiratory home monitoring (HM) were prospectively followed. For each monitor alarm the parents recorded the occurrence of apnea, bradycardia or color change, and the type of assistance provided. The mean gestational age at birth was 28.8 (26-34) weeks, and the mean birth weight was 1,180 (730-2,390)g. The parents of 61/64 infants (95%) reported a total of 185 true AOPs with a mean of 3 (1-12) events/infant. The mean postconceptional age (PCA) at the last apnea was 41.0 (37-44) weeks. In 80%, AOP terminated between 40 and 44 weeks PCA. There was no correlation between the degree of prematurity and the PCA of the last apnea. We conclude that in preterm infants with AOP discharged with HM, HM may be discontinued at 45 weeks PCA. Copyright (C) 2000S. Karger AG, Basel.
AB - Sixty-four preterm infants with apnea of prematurity (AOP) discharged with cardiorespiratory home monitoring (HM) were prospectively followed. For each monitor alarm the parents recorded the occurrence of apnea, bradycardia or color change, and the type of assistance provided. The mean gestational age at birth was 28.8 (26-34) weeks, and the mean birth weight was 1,180 (730-2,390)g. The parents of 61/64 infants (95%) reported a total of 185 true AOPs with a mean of 3 (1-12) events/infant. The mean postconceptional age (PCA) at the last apnea was 41.0 (37-44) weeks. In 80%, AOP terminated between 40 and 44 weeks PCA. There was no correlation between the degree of prematurity and the PCA of the last apnea. We conclude that in preterm infants with AOP discharged with HM, HM may be discontinued at 45 weeks PCA. Copyright (C) 2000S. Karger AG, Basel.
KW - Apnea
KW - Gestational age
KW - Home monitoring
KW - Preterm infants
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0033756420
U2 - 10.1159/000014266
DO - 10.1159/000014266
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C2 - 11044764
AN - SCOPUS:0033756420
SN - 0006-3126
VL - 78
SP - 168
EP - 173
JO - Biology of the Neonate
JF - Biology of the Neonate
IS - 3
ER -