Readiness for oral feeding and oral motor function in preterm infants
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The Effect of Oral Motor Intervention on Oral Feeding Readiness and Feeding Progression in Preterm Infants
Background: Advances in neonatal intensive care have markedly improved survival in preterm infants. These babies need hospitalization due to the immaturity of the respiratory and digestive systems. The timing for the initiation of proper feeding in premature infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) is an important challenge for physicians, parents, and...
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Oral feeding for preterm infants has been a thorny problem worldwide. To improve the efficacy of oral feeding in preterm infants, oral motor intervention (OMI), which consists of nonnutritive sucking, oral stimulation, and oral support, was developed. Published studies demonstrated that OMI may be as an alternative treatment to solve this problem; however, these results remain controversial. We...
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Background and purpose: Problems in oral feeding are common in infants, especially in preterm infants. Therefore, assessment of infants feeding could be of great help in making appropriate diagnosis for rehabilitation of swallowing. Therefore, comprehensive and accurate assessment tools are needed. The aim of this study was to review assessment tools used for infants oral feeding. Materials an...
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BACKGROUND The transition from gastric to oral feeding of preterm infants is one of the greatest concerns of health professionals and therefore needs an objective criterion to support the beginning of this process. AIM To test the reliability of an instrument that assesses the readiness of preterm infants for the transition from gastric to oral feeding. METHOD The instrument is composed by ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista CEFAC
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1516-1846
DOI: 10.1590/1982-0216201719411616