Purpose Built Catheters for Minimally Invasive Surfactant Therapy: Experience from a Canadian Tertiary Level Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Talib Al HarthyMichael R MillerOrlando daSilva Soume Bhattacharya

Published in: Canadian journal of respiratory therapy : CJRT = Revue canadienne de la therapie respiratoire : RCTR (2023)

This is the first study in Canada to report MIST with purpose-built catheters. Overall, the success rate was equally high with both catheters. Users subjectively reported higher ease of use with SurfCath™. Commercially available purpose-built catheters should facilitate universal adaptation of the MIST method.

Keyphrases

minimally invasive
preterm infants
stem cells
bone marrow
cell therapy
smoking cessation