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Filter by:Purpose: This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of singing a lullaby with compassionate touch on early comfort and later on development of developmental support program in premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. H01: Singing a lullaby along with touching in the early stages of premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit has no effect on the comfort score of the babies. H02: Singing a lullaby along with touching to premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit in the early period and then applying a developmental support program has no effect on the social emotional skills of premature babies. H03: Singing lullabies with touch to premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit in the early period and then applying a developmental support program has no effect on the language skills of premature babies. H04: Singing a lullaby along with touching to premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit in the early period and then applying a developmental support program has no effect on the cognitive skills of premature babies. H05: Singing a lullaby along with touching to premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit in the early period and then applying a developmental support program has no effect on the motor skills of premature babies.
This observational study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of a new infant feeding tool called "SMART Tool" in the neonatal intensive care unit. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. To design a feeding tool to assess oral motor and neurobehavioral skills in neonates 2. To establish psychometrics of the new tool by doing reliability and validity tests.
Subjects will use the Gabi system on a daily basis for 3 months, each time the subject is resting or asleep. The Gabi system will recording the SpO2, pulse rate, respiratory rate and movements of the subject. The objective of this study is to perform a first assessment of the range of most potentially clinically relevant indications for use of the Gabi system for children < 6 years old with underlying medical conditions. This is performed by asking HCPs to review the data measured by the Gabi system after taking a medical decision independently from the Gabi data and to assess the potential clinical utility of the Gabi system. The usability of the system will also be assessed throughout questionnaires filled out by the HCPs and by the caregivers. *During this study, the data collected by the Gabi system are not intended to be used by caregivers or HCPs to take any (medical) decisions.
The purpose of this study is to refine and pilot test a mobile health (mHealth), video-based family management program for parents of preterm infants hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). By moving beyond the basic infant care tasks taught by parenting programs and instead comprehensively training parents to use evidence-based family management skills, we hypothesize that our intervention, called PREEMIE PROGRESS, will better equip parents to meet the chronic, complex healthcare needs of their preterm infant.
The transitional period, defined as the first 72 hours after preterm birth, is often characterized by a significant hemodynamic instability and may also be associated with an impairment of cerebral autoregulation, with relevant clinical implications. The moving correlation coefficient between cerebral oxygenation and heart rate, also defined as TOHRx, has been previously proposed as a marker of cerebrovascular reactivity and provides an indirect estimation of cerebral autoregulation in preterm infants. This study aims to evaluate whether different antenatal, perinatal and postnatal factors may influence cerebrovascular reactivity in very preterm infants during the transitional period.
It is a single-center prospective observational descriptive study. studied population is premature infants, hospitalized in the neonatology department of the University Hospital of Grenoble and for whom the RetCam examination is planned for screening for retinopathy of prematurity if they are at risk (prematurity <32 weeks). To measure their pain during the examination, it will be a matter of filming the face of the child for 15 seconds before the examination, then 2 times 30 seconds at two distinct times. The PIPP (Premature Infant Pain Profile) score includes a percentage of time on these 30 seconds where 3 items are found modified and a monitoring of heart rate and oxygen saturation.This time calculation can not be done live and requires video recording of the child's face during the exam. The statistical analyzes will be adjusted for sex, gestational age at birth, weight, and pain from birth (determined by the number of doses of level 1 analgesics received by the baby and the number of days (from birth to to the RetCam examination) when the baby received > level 1 analgesics).
Repeated transfusions have been associated with very poor outcome of preterm infants. Fetal hemoglobin (HbF) and adult Hb (HbA) have different affinity for oxygen. The high level of adult Hb may contribute to exacerbating the oxidative damage responsible for prematurity diseases. The investigators hypothesized that transfusing red blood cells (RBC) obtained from allogeneic cord blood (CB) of healthy full-term babies (which contains almost exclusively HbF) may prevent the non-physiological decrease of HbF in premature neonates, likewise protecting them from oxygen radical diseases. Cord blood transfusion in preterms - CB TRIP - is a monocentric prospective nonrandomized study aimed to monitor HbF levels in preterm neonates receiving RBC transfusions from either umbilical blood of full-term healthy babies (CB-RBC) and/or from adult donors (A-RBC).
The use of non-invasive methods of respiratory support to reduce complications of prolonged invasive mechanical ventilation in preterm infants has increased. The most common mode is nasal intermittent mandatory ventilation (NIMV). In NIMV, the interval between mechanical breaths is fixed and is determined by the frequency dialed by the clinician. Asynchrony between the infant's spontaneous breathing may exist since mechanical breaths delivered at fixed intervals can occur at different times over the inspiratory or expiratory phases of the infant's spontaneous breathing. Synchronized-NIMV is a mode similar to NIMV where the ventilator cycle is delivered in synchrony with the infant's spontaneous inspiration. This has been achieved by using techniques to detect the infant's spontaneous inspiration. The advantages or disadvantages of synchronized compared to non-synchronized NIMV remain to be determined. This study seeks to evaluate the effect of synchronized NIMV versus non-synchronized NIMV on ventilation and gas exchange in premature infants who require supplemental oxygen. The hypothesis is that the use of flow synchronized nasal intermittent mandatory ventilation (S-NIMV) in comparison to non-synchronized NIMV will improve ventilation and gas exchange and reduce breathing effort. The objective of the study is to compare the effect of flow synchronized-NIMV to non-synchronized-NIMV on tidal volume (VT), minute ventilation (VE), gas exchange, breathing effort, apnea and chest wall distortion in preterm neonates with lung disease.