TY - JOUR T1 - Time to standardise neonatal pulse oximetry JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - 224 LP - 225 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2020-319457 VL - 106 IS - 2 AU - Cliodhna Godden AU - Emily Mullan AU - Helen Mactier AU - Richard Boulton AU - Martin Shaw AU - Andrew Brunton AU - Stephen Dacombe AU - Ruth Hamilton Y1 - 2021/03/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/106/2/224.abstract N2 - Pulse oximetry is commonly used to assess requirement for supplemental oxygen at discharge for preterm infants with confirmed or suspected chronic lung disease. Criteria for supplemental oxygen vary, with disparate devices used and no standardised assessment protocol.1 Establishing normative oximeter reference limits in healthy term newborns is a necessary prelude to establishing such values for ex-preterm infants. Published data for extended oximetry recordings in healthy newborns have typically used short (~2 s) averaging time,2 but in order to reduce alarm fatigue most units using newer generation oximeters use the longer default averaging time of 8 s.3 We carried out overnight pulse oximetry recording using a Masimo Radical-7 device in a prospective study of healthy term newborns delivered by elective caesarean section and recruited from the postnatal wards … ER -