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PEDIATRIC RESEARCH
Volume 65, Issue 3, Pages 352-356Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e318193f117
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There is limited data describing how preterm and term infants breathe spontaneously immediately after birth. We Studied spontaneously breathing infants >= 29 wk immediately after birth. Airway flow and tidal volume were measured for 90 s using a hot wire anemometer attached to a facemask. Twelve preterm and 13 term infants had recordings suitable for analysis. The median (inter-quartile range) proportion of expiratory braking was very high in both groups (preterm 90 [74-99] vs. term 87 [74-94]%; NS). Crying pattern was the predominant breathing pattern for both groups (62 [36-77]% vs. 64 [46-79]%; NS). Preterm infants showed a higher incidence of expiratory hold pattern (9 [4-17]% vs. 2 [0-6]%; p = 0.02). Both groups had lame tidal volumes (6.7 [3.9] vs. 6.5 [4.1] mL/kg), high peak inspiratory flows (5.7 [3.8] vs. 8.0 [5] L/min), lower peak expiratory flow (3.6 [2.41] vs. 4.8 [3.2] L/min), short inspiration time (0.31 [0.13] vs. 0.32 [0.161] s) and long expiration time (0.93 [0.64] vs. 1.14 [0.86] s). Directly after birth, both preterm and term infants frequently brake their expiration, mostly by crying. Preterm infants use significantly more expiratory breath holds to defend their lung volume. (Pediatr Res 65: 352-356, 2009)
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