Apnea of prematurity is an episode when a premature baby stops breathing for 15 to 20 seconds. Premature babies are born earlier than 37 weeks, before certain parts of the body have fully formed. Apnea may happen when the part of the brain that controls breathing is affected. It may also ...
Caffeine for Apnea of Prematurity: Is More Better?F. DavalianAmerican Academy of Pediatrics
Although the intervention for caffeine could be appropriate, apnea of prematurity (AOP) is a diagnosis of exclusion and the physicians needed to be informed of its development. Several hours after extubation, the nurses started caffeine for the apnea. On day 4 the nasal continuous . . . 展开 ...
Marcus CL, Meltzer LJ, Roberts RS, Traylor J, Dix J, D’Ilario J, Asztalos E, Opie G, Doyle LW, Biggs SN, Nixon GM, Narang I, Bhattacharjee R, Davey M, Horne RS, Cheshire M, Gibbons J, Costantini L, Bradford R, Schmidt B, Caffeine for Apnea of Prematurity-Sleep S. Long-term ...
Prematurity; or Recent respiratory infection; or Severe OSAS was present on pre-operative PSG (a respiratory disturbance index of 19 or greater); or Symptoms of OSAS persist after treatment; Drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) for surgical planning in children (to age 18) with persistent obstruct...
Prolonged apnea associated with upper airway protective reflexes in apnea of prematurity. We examined the hypothesis that most idiopathic prolonged apneic spells in preterm infants originate as a form of upper airway protective reflex. We elicited a previously described upper airway reflex in 10 sleepin...
as medication effects, must be ruled out. When the same diagnostic criteria are found in an infant born at 37 weeks conceptional age or later, but the diagnosis is changed to “apnea of infancy.” The younger the conceptional age at birth, the greater the prevalence of apnea of prematurity...