An experience with a bubble CPAP bundle: is chronic lung disease preventable?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is associated with marginal decrease in chronic lung disease (CLD). This study aims to report outcomes, with focus on CLD, of preterm infants managed with a bubble CPAP (b-CPAP) bundle of care.

Methods

Infants <1500 g were stratified into four groups depending on intubation status through first 3 days of life. The incidence of mortality, CLD and other morbidities were compared over four chronological epochs. Outcomes of the most recent epoch were compared to contemporaneous benchmarks from Vermont Oxford Network (VON).

Results

Of 773 infants (median GA = 28 weeks, average BW = 995 g), 24.5% were intubated in DR and 11.7% in the first day of life. Mechanical ventilation, bCPAP and oxygen days in survivors were 1.5,

SUBMITTER: Aly H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7223768 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature