Artigo Revisado por pares

Limiting Oxygen Therapy in the Neonatal ICU: A Quality Improvement Initiative

2019; American Association for Respiratory Care; Volume: 64; Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

1943-3654

Autores

Deborah Linehan, Dennis Lee, Cheryl Horn, Suhagi Kadakia, Rose M. Viscardi,

Tópico(s)

Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring

Resumo

Background: Oxygen therapy in the premature neonatal population is associated with negative outcomes and neonatal intensive care units (NICU) use continuous pulse oximetry to limit its use in these vulnerable subjects. The NICU at a large university hospital has a 4-pronged Target Oxygen Protocol 1) Set correct SpO2 alarm limits 2) Use Nellcor OxiMax N-600x pulse oximeter (Covidien, Mansfield, Massachusetts) to display histogram of percent time in each SpO2 quintile per 24h period 3) Display correct postmenstrual age oxygen target saturation card 4) Set oxygen blender FIO2

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