Humidification Practices of Extremely Preterm Neonates: A Clinical Survey.

ABSTRACT: Extremely preterm neonates are at risk of morbidity and mortality related to their underdeveloped skin barrier. Humidified incubators are typically used in their care, but there is a paucity of literature to inform the standardization of specific evidence-based humidification practices in the NICU. A brief, voluntary, anonymous survey was distributed to our home institution and numerous national and international external institutions. Survey questions pertained to institutional humidification guidelines and were qualitatively analyzed. We received 89 responses from the home institution and 42 responses from the external institutions. Within the home institution, despite the presence of a guideline, individual practitioners reported varying practices in the starting levels of humidity and

SUBMITTER: Rizk N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9408417 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature