Evidence · Randomised trial
A pilot randomized controlled trial of EKG for neonatal resuscitation.
- Delivery room and stabilisation
- Medical
- Newborn life support
- Nursing
- Preterm stabilisation
This paper is from 2017, more than five years ago. Newer evidence may have been published since.
Summary
This pilot randomised controlled trial examined whether displaying ECG heart rate to the clinical team during delivery room stabilisation of 40 preterm infants affected physiological measures and timing of interventions. ECG heart rate was available earlier than pulse oximetry-derived heart rate. Interventions such as changes in FiO2, positive pressure ventilation, airway pressure increases and intubation tended to occur earlier when ECG was visible, though differences were not significant in this small trial. Further study of early ECG placement is suggested.
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