Abstract
A cribside computer-based system was used to determine the responses of premature infants to routine care activities. Results from 51 infants show that such activities are often accompanied by significant rises in the arterial blood pressure and significant drops in transcutaneous oxygen. Although the medical implications of these observed changes are not fully developed at present, evidence is mounting that routine care procedures may play an important role in the causality of intraventricular hemorrhage, a leading cause of death in premature infants.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 307-312 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Clinical Engineering |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1989 |
Keywords
- Hypertension, premature infants, monitoring
- Hypoxia, premature infants, monitoring
- Intraventricular hemorrhage, premature infants, monitoring
- Premature infants, computer monitoring
- Routine care activity response, premature infants
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine (miscellaneous)
- Biomedical Engineering