View clinical trials related to Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia.
Filter by:Preterm infants have high and prolonged exposure to positive pressure ventilation, which contributes to acute lung injury and the development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Despite the risk of diaphragmatic dysfunction in infants with BPD, the effect of prolonged ventilator support on the diaphragmatic function of preterm infants has not been well characterized. Hence, we aim to characterize the diaphragmatic function of very preterm neonates with BPD who are corrected to ≥ 36 weeks using bedside ultrasound in comparison to healthy newborns born at ≥ 36 weeks gestation.
To non-invasively estimate the alveolar surface area of the lungs of prematurely born infants by taking measurements of oxygen and carbon dioxide and utilizing functional morphometry.
Infants will be monitored by TcCO2 during three consecutive time periods of one hour each on a high and low rate of NIPPV, when in a stable condition. NIPPV rate will start high/low, changed to low/high and switched back to starting rate.
The purpose of this study is to determine if in preterm infants < 34 weeks' gestation at birth receiving respiratory support with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or nasal cannula (NC), CPAP compared with NC will decrease the number of episodes with oxygen saturations less than 85% of ≥10 seconds in a 24-hour randomized controlled trial. This will be a randomized controlled trial with a 1:1 parallel allocation of infants to CPAP or NC oxygen using stratified permuted block design.
Extreme preterm infants (GA ≤ 28+6 weeks) are at high risk for bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) that has been associated with significant long-term impairment. Lung ultrasound score (LUSs) has the potential to early identify infants at high risk of developing BPD who may benefit from early intervention. Aim: To assess if LUS score can be utilized to predict the development of BPD in infants born at ≤ 28+6 weeks, early in their postnatal course, when the disease is likely to be most amenable to therapeutic intervention.
For the infant participating the study, ventilator settings and respiratory variables will be recorded every day and exported to a specific computer using the Servo Record Viewer version 1.0 (Maquet Critical Care AB, Getinge, Gothenburg, Sweden). Collected data gives the value for peak inspiratory pressure (PIP), expiratory tidal volume (Vt), peak Edi, minimum Edi, measured respiratory rate (RR), neural respiratory rate (nRR) and percentage of backup breaths for each minute. All the ventilator data will be inspected and compared with the event logs recorded automatically from the ventilator, which includes all the alarm notification, mode and setting changes, cables connection and disconnection data. Data during disconnection of the Edi cable, malfunction or dislocation of Edi catheter will be excluded from the analysis. The mean values during each day will be computed for each ventilatory variables. If there is a change in the ventilatory setting parameters, we will choose the one which was applied for longer duration in the 24-hour time period. The following clinical characteristics will be collected from medical records: gestational age at birth, birth weight, gender, the time and amount of feeding, medication during the study days, desaturation events, bradycardia events, suction time and methods.
To investigate the relationship between bronchopulmonary dysplasia and thrombocytopenia.
To study the effect of Autologous cord blood cells infusion on prevention of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in very preterm neonates
The purpose of this study is to examine if a new and simple method involving complete photo-protection of multivitamins only (since sampling through infusion) will result in a significant reduction of peroxide contamination of parenteral nutrition compared to standard method of parenteral nutrition preparation and infusion in extremely preterm infants.
The main objective is to assess correlation between Newborn Infant Parasympathetic Index values and external evaluation by Comfort Behaviour Scale during painful medical cares in sedated intubated children admitted in pediatric intensive care unit.