Home oxygen therapy in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: a prospective study
| العنوان: | Home oxygen therapy in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: a prospective study |
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| المؤلفون: | Franco Zacchello, Daniele Trevisanuto, Vincenzo Zanardo, M Pinello, F Vencato, Eugenio Baraldi, Marco Filippone, Ornella Milanesi, S Carra |
| المصدر: | European Journal of Pediatrics. 156:878-882 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1997. |
| سنة النشر: | 1997 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Home oxygen therapy, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Home Nursing, Birth weight, Gestational Age, Doppler echocardiography, Weight Gain, medicine.disease_cause, Pulmonary hypertension, Retinopathy of prematurity, Child Development, Humans, Medicine, Respiratory function, Prospective Studies, Early discharge, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, Female, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Oxygen Inhalation Therapy, Gestational age, Newborn, medicine.disease, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, business, Nasal cannula |
| الوصف: | We followed the clinical course of 21 infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia enrolled in a prospective home O2 therapy programme during a 4-year-period. Mean gestational age was 28.5 weeks (range, 25–36 weeks) and mean birth weight 1093 g (range 630–2750 g). Infants were regularly monitored to maintain pulse oximeter O2 saturation over 94%–95%. The source of O2 was liquid oxygen and was delivered by nasal cannula. During the follow up oxygenation was assessed by SatO2 measurement, cardiac function by Doppler echocardiography and respiratory function by the occlusion technique. All patients had an ophthalmological follow up. The mean age of the infants at discharge was 3.7 months (range 1.7–8.6) and mean weight 2830 g (range 2150–3780 g). At discharge 8 infants had right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH) and four of them had pulmonary hypertension. Mean duration of home O2 therapy was 97 days (range 15–320 days) and the mean age of discontinuation of O2 was 6.9 months (range 3–14.7 months). The cardiological follow up was benign: the ECG signs of RVH disappeared by 12 months of age in six out of eight infants and the right ventricular pulmonary pressure, as measured by the Doppler method, normalised in the four patients in whom it was detected. No relationship was found between respiratory mechanics and the duration of O2 therapy. Weight gain was poor with mean growth at the 3rd percentile for females and just below the 3rd percentile for males. Twelve of the 21 infants required 25 rehospitalizations. No one presented deterioration of retinopathy of prematurity that was present in 16 infants at discharge; at 12 months retinopathy was resolved in 14 infants. A total of 2025 hospital days were saved, representing a significant financial saving. Conclusion Home O2 therapy permits the safe early discharge of O2-dependent BPD infants and it reduces significantly the length of time spent in hospital which represents a considerable financial saving. |
| تدمد: | 1432-1076 0340-6199 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s004310050735 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::a9a08a390fd8a693acdea2dd70b12a6a https://doi.org/10.1007/s004310050735 |
| Rights: | CLOSED |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....a9a08a390fd8a693acdea2dd70b12a6a |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14321076 03406199 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s004310050735 |