It can be very difficult to maintain premature infants prone to periodic breathing and apnea of prematurity in a narrow oxygen saturation range. The nurse plays a vital role in infant positioning ...

Background: The CAP trial enrolled 2006 infants with birth weights 500-1250 g who were randomly assigned to caffeine therapy or placebo for apnea of prematurity (N Engl J Med 2006; 354: 2112 and ...

The results of polysomnography in patients without OSA revealed central sleep apnea (4%), behavioral sleep ... Family History of Premature CAD Mortality Despite the similar proportion of subjects ...

These key circuits continue to function continuously for the lifetime of an animal. In humans, their dysfunction contributes to pathologies including apnea of prematurity, SIDS in babies, obstructive ...

Another respiratory problem that premature babies may develop is called apnea of prematurity. Apnea occurs when the baby stops breathing. This can occur because he temporarily ‘forgets’ to breathe as ...

RDS is quite common in premature infants. Their lungs have underdeveloped air sacs, present in the lungs, that keep them inflated with air. The sacks could not expand due to a lack of surfactant.

At times, it was touch and go for Miracle during her stay in the NICU: She was hooked up to a CPAP, a machine that treats ...

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