Nocturnal oxygen saturation profiles of healthy term infants.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Pulse oximetry is used extensively in hospital and home settings to measure arterial oxygen saturation (SpO2). Interpretation of the trend and range of SpO2 values observed in infants is currently limited by a lack of reference ranges using current devices, and may be augmented by development of cumulative frequency (CF) reference-curves. This study aims to provide reference oxygen saturation values from a prospective longitudinal cohort of healthy infants.

Design

Prospective longitudinal cohort study.

Setting

Sleep-laboratory.

Patients

34 healthy term infants were enrolled, and studied at 2 weeks, 3, 6, 12 and 24 months of age (N=30, 25, 27, 26, 20, respectively).

Interventions

Full overnight polysomnography, including 2 s averaging pulse oxim

SUBMITTER: Terrill PI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4283696 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature