Publications by authors named "Heather O White"
Article Synopsis
- The study examines the effects of a new nutrition guideline aimed at preventing unhealthy body mass index (BMI) in premature infants with gestational ages of 32 weeks or less.
- It found that increasing feeding volumes resulted in fewer instances of growth failure (weight below the 10th percentile) and reduced occurrences of disproportionately low BMI among infants.
- While the guideline showed promise in preventing growth issues, it had a limited impact on the proportion of infants classified as disproportionately large at discharge.
Background: Chronic lung disease remains a burden for extremely preterm infants. The changes in ventilation over time and optimal ventilatory management remains unknown. Newer, non-invasive technologies provide insight into these patterns.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Very low birth weight infants often demonstrate poor postnatal longitudinal growth, which negatively impacts survival rates and long-term health outcomes. Improving extrauterine growth restriction (EUGR) among extremely premature infants has become a significant focus of quality improvement initiatives. Prior efforts in the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center neonatal intensive care unit were unsuccessful in improving the EUGR rate at discharge.
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