In-hospital Outcomes and Early Hemodynamic Management According to Echocardiography Use in Hypotensive Preterm Infants: A National Propensity-Matched Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hypotension is a common condition during the first postnatal days of very preterm infants and has been associated with an increased risk of adverse outcomes but its management remains controversial. There is a consensus to promote the use of neonatologist-performed echocardiography (NPE) in hypotensive very preterm infants, although no clinical trial ever assessed this practice.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data from the French national EPIPAGE-2 cohort to evaluate the association of NPE with survival, severe morbidity, and therapeutic management in very preterm infants with early hypotension. Reasons for administering antihypotensive treatments were also analyzed. We included infants born before 30 weeks of gestation wi

SUBMITTER: Raschetti R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9329625 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature