Amplitude-integrated EEG and range-EEG modulation associated with pneumatic orocutaneous stimulation in preterm infants.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Controlled somatosensory stimulation strategies have demonstrated merit in developing oral feeding skills in premature infants who lack a functional suck, however, the effects of orosensory entrainment stimulation on electrocortical dynamics is unknown. The objective of the study was to determine the effects of servo-controlled pneumatic orocutaneous stimulation presented during gavage feedings on the modulation of amplitude-integrated electroencephalogram (aEEG) and range electroencephalogram (rEEG) activity.

Study design

Two-channel EEG recordings were collected during 180 sessions that included orocutaneous stimulation and non-stimulation epochs among 22 preterm infants (mean gestational age=28.56 weeks) who were randomized to treatment and control 'sham' condit

SUBMITTER: Barlow SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3943746 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature