TY - JOUR T1 - Bolus feeding has no effect on cerebral hemodynamics, irrespective of gestational age. JF - J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med Y1 - 2017 A1 - Bembich, Stefano A1 - Cont, Gabriele A1 - Bua, Jenny A1 - Orlando, Chiara A1 - Di Benedetto, Donatella A1 - Demarini, Sergio KW - Cerebrovascular Circulation KW - Enteral Nutrition KW - Female KW - Gestational Age KW - Heart Rate KW - Humans KW - Infant, Newborn KW - Infant, Premature KW - Intensive Care Units, Neonatal KW - Male KW - Oxygen KW - Oxyhemoglobins KW - Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared AB -

OBJECTIVE: By multichannel near-infrared spectroscopy, we studied if gestational age has any influence on preterm cerebral hemodynamics, during bolus feeding.

METHODS: Oxy-haemoglobin (HbO), as cerebral blood flow estimate, and the ratio between HbO and total haemoglobin (HbO/HbTot), as cerebral oxygenation estimate, were assessed in 40 stable premature infants, during a 10 min bolus feeding.

RESULTS: We found no effect of any of the gestational ages studied (25-34 weeks) either on cerebral blood flow or on oxygenation, during a bolus feeding procedure.

CONCLUSIONS: Bolus feeding appears not to affect cerebral hemodynamics of uncritically preterm infants, irrespective of gestational age.

VL - 30 IS - 9 U1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27718771?dopt=Abstract ER -