Does recorded oximetry utilizing a consensus-based algorithm compare to polysomnography in discontinuing home oxygen therapy in premature infants?

Background: Approximately a third of all extremely preterm infants diagnosed with bronchopulmonary dysplasia will require home oxygen therapy (HOT). Lack of consensus-based guidelines has led to significant variability in outpatient HOT management in the United States. A common assessment performed before discontinuing oxygen is a formal polysomnogram (PSG).

Adapting Helping Babies Breathe into a Virtual Curriculum: Methods, Results, and Lessons Learned.

. The Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) curriculum is an established, effective method to combat neonatal mortality. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted in-person HBB training sessions worldwide, portending deficits in the dissemination of this important intervention.

Management of COVID-19 in an adolescent demonstrates lasting effects of extreme prematurity on pulmonary function.

Extremely premature infants have demonstrated increased survival due to advancements in care. This population is at risk for decreased lung function that persists into adolescence. It is important for clinicians to consider this history when treating and assessing such patients who contract SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infection.