Predicting outcomes of mechanically ventilated premature infants using respiratory severity score.

Indrani BhattacharjeeAnirudha DasMarc CollinHany Aly

Published in: The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians (2020)

This study is the first to show that RSS in the first 3 days of life is a good predictor of composite neonatal outcomes: severe IVH, BPD, ROP, or mortality. Early RSS had a high positive predictive value for the composite outcome of morbidities/mortality and a high specificity for mortality, ROP, and IVH individually.

Keyphrases

cardiovascular events
risk factors
intensive care unit
acute respiratory distress syndrome
cardiovascular disease
early onset
adipose tissue
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
weight loss
respiratory tract