Blood pressure and blood volume in preterm infants.

Early sodium intake and later blood pressure in preterm infants.

The relation between early salt intake and later hypertension is debated. As part of a larger feeding study, 347 preterm infants were randomly assigned to receive early diets differing grossly in sodium content. Feeding a high sodium preterm formula in the neonatal period did not influence arterial blood pressure at 18 months (corrected) age.

Challenges in Treating Low Blood Pressure in Preterm Infants

Whilst the prevalence of low blood pressure in preterm infants seems to have fallen over the last number of years, the problem is still frequently encountered in the neonatal intensive care unit and many babies continue to receive intervention. Great variability in practice persists, with a significant number of extremely low gestational age newborns in some institutions receiving some form of ...

Cerebral white matter blood flow and arterial blood pressure in preterm infants

UNLABELLED It is generally assumed that one reason why white matter injury is common in preterm infants is the relatively poor vascular supply. AIM To examine whether blood flow to the white matter is relatively more reduced at low blood pressure than is blood flow to the brain as a whole. METHODS   Thirteen normoxic preterm infants had blood flow imaging on 16 occasions with single-photon ...

Blood pressure measurement in infants.

932) referred to 4 methods of indirect measurement of blood pressure: palpation, auscultation, flush, and Doppler. May I draw your attention to a fifth method which will measure systolic and diastolic blood pressure with reproducible results, even in very small infants-oscillometry. This method was first used by Mlle. L. Koessler (1912). By using a Pachon oscillometer, measurements were improve...

Blood Volume in Normal Infants and Children.