Newborn Infant
Conditions
Keywords
Newborn,, Infant,, Endotracheal Intubation,, Carbon dioxide detector,, Flow waves
Brief summary
Most premature babies have difficulty breathing at birth and need help (resuscitation). The treatment for this is to gently inflate their lungs with a resuscitation device and a facemask. To gently inflate an infant's lungs the clinical team places a breathing tube in the windpipe and blow air into your baby's lung (puffs). With the first puffs the clinical team checks if the breathing tube is correctly placed within the windpipe. The investigators routinely use a detector which checks for exhaled carbon dioxide or the graphical display of waves forms of the infants breathing to check that the breathing tube position. However, the investigators do not know which one (exhaled carbon dioxide or the graphical display of waves forms) is better to check that the breathing tube position is correct and therefore the investigators would like to study them. The purpose of this study is to compare exhaled carbon dioxide detectors (ECO2 group) with the graphical display of waves forms (flow waves group) to provide us with information on how the investigators can help babies who struggle with breathing at birth.
Interventions
PROCEDUREFlow waves
Flow waves will be used to confirm correct tube placement in newborn infants.
PROCEDUREECO2
ECO2 will be used to confirm correct tube placement in newborn infants.
Sponsors
University of Alberta
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
DOUBLE (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
No minimum to 120 Days
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* All infants (term and preterm) born at The Royal Alexandra Hospital who require endotracheal intubation in the delivery room or neonatal intensive care unit will be recorded.
Exclusion criteria
* Infants will also be excluded if their parents refuse to give consent to this study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Using flow waves will increase the percentage of correct tube placement in newborn infants | within the first 10 inflations | Flow waves and exhaled Carbon dioxide will be compared using the numbers of inflation needed to identify correct tube placement. We will compare the number of inflation in each group to identify which device can identify correct tube placement faster and more accurately. Outcome will be number of inflation until correct tube placement has been identified. |
Countries
Canada
Outcome results
None listed