Oral glucose during targeted neonatal echocardiography: is it useful?

摘要: Targeted neonatal echocardiography (TNE) is widely used in the cardiovascular management of sick infants intensive care unit (NICU).1 TNE should only be performed by operators who possess knowledge and skills to acquire high-quality images a structured manner, order formulate diagnosis medical recommendation. Suboptimal image quality due agitation infant during may prolong scan time result errors measurements interpretation, leading incorrect decisions. Oral glucose solutions are recommended reduce procedure-related stress infants.2 However, there no data supporting this intervention context conductance TNE. Anecdotally, many neonatologist sonographers across globe have adopted routine use oral facilitate acquisition TNE, despite lack scientific evidence. To determine whether effective reducing 104 born between 26 …