Caffeine for the Treatment of Apnea in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Systematic Overview of Meta-Analyses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Caffeine is a common treatment for neonatal intensive care management of the developmental complication of apnea of prematurity in preterm infants. There are several systematic reviews (SRs) on the performance of caffeine in the treatment of apnea. The evidence provided by those, however, is depressed by an information overload due to high heterogeneity in the characteristics as well as the quality of these SRs.

Objective

The aim was to provide a systematic overview of SRs on the use of caffeine for the management of neonatal apnea. Such overviews are a recent method used to assess and filter top evidence among SRs, enabling enhanced access to targeted information of interest.

Methods

A comprehensive literature search was conducted via EMBASE, Cochrane Data

SUBMITTER: Alhersh E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7266675 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature