The outcome of very low birth weight neonates (≤1500 g) rescued by inhaled nitric oxide: Neurodevelopment in early childhood☆,☆☆,★
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METHODS
In this neonatal intensive care unit, premature neonates with severe hypoxemic respiratory failure are initially treated with conventional mechanical ventilation and bovine surfactant. Conventional mechanical ventilation is given by the Infant Star ventilator with the oscillator mode (Infrasonics Inc, San Diego, Calif), and the ventilator settings are adjusted to maintain arterial blood gases PaO2 50 to 70 mm Hg, PaCO2 40 to 60 mm Hg, and pH 7.30 to 7.45. High-frequency oscillatory ventilation
RESULTS
Between December 1993 and October 1997, 24 VLBW neonates (gestational age 24 to 30 weeks, birth weight 340 to 1460 g) were consecutively admitted and treated with INO. An additional 2 neonates (mosaic trisomy 18, Potter’s syndrome) were excluded from this study. The demographic and clinical features of these neonates are listed in Table I.
INO was started at 2 to 322 hours after birth and continued for 3 to 130 hours (Table I). Systemic oxygenation improved significantly soon after INO was
DISCUSSION
Although INO has been shown to reduce the need of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in term and near-term neonates,3, 4 neurodevelopmental disability has been reported in 12% of a cohort of 32 term and near-term INO-treated infants who survived to 2 years of age for assessment.5 We report the neurodevelopmental outcome of VLBW neonates treated with INO. We found a high mortality rate, frequent abnormal cranial ultrasonographies, and poor neurodevelopmental outcome in early childhood in these
Acknowledgements
We thank Brenda Young, Melba Athaide, and Loretta Sanders for their help in the data collection of this study.
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From the Department of Newborn Medicine, Royal Alexandra Hospital; Neonatal and Infant Follow-up Clinic, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital; and Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Reprint requests: Charlene M.T. Robertson, MD, Director, Neonatal and Infant Follow-up Clinic, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, 10230-111 Ave, Edmonton, Alberta, T5G 0B7, Canada.
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