Neonatal complications of extreme prematurity in mechanically ventilated infants
Tóm tắt
Previous data have suggested that neonatal complications amongst preterm ventilated infants increase with decreasing gestational age and thus are likely to be greatest among ventilated infants of less than 28 weeks gestational age. The aim of this study was to test that hypothesis, thus we report the neonatal complications of 175 extremely preterm mechanically ventilated infants (gestational age ≤28 weeks). Of the infants 152 were ventilated because of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) or respiratory distress of severe prematurity, 41% of these infants died. Amongst infants with RDS or respiratory distress of extreme prematurity, mortality was significantly increased in infants of gestational age ≤24 weeks and birth weight ≤1000 g. In this group 20% developed a pneumothorax, and mortality was inversely related to gestational age. In infants with RDS, 43% developed a periventricular haemorrhage and 37% were still oxygen-dependent at 28 days of age; neither of these complications was significantly related to birth weight or gestational age. Of infants with RDS 38% developed a patent ductus arteriosus and 16% developed retinopathy of prematurity. These data suggest that even amongst very immature infants there has been an impressive reduction in the neonatal complications of mechanical ventilation.
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