Success in Babies With Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome
As direction of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) advances, clinicians must continually revise their electric current practice. We report the fourth update of "European Guidelines for the Management of RDS" by a European panel of experienced neonatologists and an skilful perinatal obstetrician based on available literature up to the end of 2018. Optimising outcome for babies with RDS includes prediction of risk of preterm delivery, demand for appropriate maternal transfer to a perinatal centre and timely employ of antenatal steroids. Delivery room management has become more evidence-based, and protocols for lung protection including initiation of CPAP and titration of oxygen should be implemented immediately later on birth. Surfactant replacement therapy is a crucial office of management of RDS, and newer protocols for its utilize recommend early administration and avoidance of mechanical ventilation. Methods of maintaining babies on non-invasive respiratory back up have been farther adult and may crusade less distress and reduce chronic lung affliction. As technology for delivering mechanical ventilation improves, the risk of causing lung injury should decrease, although minimising time spent on mechanical ventilation using caffeine and, if necessary, postnatal steroids are as well important considerations. Protocols for optimising general intendance of infants with RDS are also essential with good temperature control, careful fluid and nutritional direction, maintenance of perfusion and judicious utilize of antibiotics all being of import determinants of best outcome.
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Introduction
Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) remains a significant trouble for preterm babies, although management has evolved gradually over the years resulting in improved survival for the smallest infants but with unacceptable rates of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) at least in part due to reduced utilize of postnatal steroids [1]. Since 2006, a panel of neonatologists from many European countries have met three-yearly to review the almost contempo literature and develop consensus recommendations for optimal direction of preterm babies with or at risk of RDS in order to reach the best outcomes for neonates in Europe. The "European Consensus Guidelines for the Management of RDS" were outset published in 2007 and take been updated in 2010, 2013 and 2016 and are endorsed past the European Society for Paediatric Research [2-five]. The Guidelines have been translated into several languages including Chinese [6], and although primarily intended for use in Europe, they contain recommendations that potentially could be used anywhere provided clinicians have access to all the resources and experience needed to provide mod neonatal intensive intendance.
Although primarily a disorder of surfactant deficiency resulting in pulmonary insufficiency from soon later birth, the classical clinical description of RDS has changed equally treatments take evolved over the years. Radiographic appearances of "basis glass with air bronchograms" are rarely seen today due to early surfactant therapy and early continuous positive airway force per unit area (CPAP). Definitions based on claret gas analyses are also increasingly redundant equally clinicians have moved towards a more pragmatic approach of giving surfactant therapy based on clinical cess of work of breathing and inspired oxygen requirement very early on in the clinical course. Knowing how many babies have genuine RDS is therefore difficult. Of the 8,156 babies from Europe for whom data were submitted to the Vermont Oxford Network during 2017, RDS was coded for about 80% of babies born at 28 weeks' gestation increasing to xc% at 24 weeks' gestation [7]. Surfactant was given to 55% of very low birth weight (VLBW) infants, 27% in the delivery room and 29% beyond 2 h of age, suggesting that prophylactic surfactant is still being used. Chronic lung disease (or BPD) was coded for xviii% of VLBW infants in Europe.
The aim of management of RDS is to provide interventions to maximise survival whilst minimising potential adverse furnishings including BPD. Many strategies and therapies for prevention and treatment of RDS are being tested in clinical trials, and many new studies have been incorporated into updated systematic reviews. These Guidelines update the previous four guidelines subsequently critical examination of the most contempo evidence available in late 2018. We have over again used a format of summarising management strategies followed by evidence-based recommendations according to the GRADE organisation to reflect the authors' views on the strength of evidence supporting each of the recommendations [8]. Quality of evidence and strength of recommendations are summarised in Table 1. Summary of recommendations is shown in Appendix one.
Tabular array 1.
Representations of quality of evidence and strength of recommendations
Prenatal Care
Lack of antenatal care increases risk of death or severe morbidity [9]. In that location are no generally effective means to preclude spontaneous or elective preterm births. Withal, in significant women at gamble of spontaneous preterm birth due either to previous preterm birth or where a shortened cervix has been identified, use of progesterone is associated with reduced preterm delivery rates and reduced neonatal bloodshed [x, 11]. Routine cervical length measurements may be brash in populations at gamble of preterm birth but not in populations with an overall low risk and/or very low incidence of curt neck [12]. Cervical cerclage may also reduce preterm birth in high-risk singleton pregnancies [thirteen]. The present claiming is to identify high-risk pregnancies early and aim for effective prevention of preterm nascence.
Interventions to improve outcome and preclude RDS begin earlier birth. At that place is often alert of impending preterm delivery, and in these cases a need to consider interventions to prolong gestation or reduce risk of an adverse result by "preparing" the fetus. Cervical length measurement possibly in combination with a biomarker may make up one's mind which women are actually at adventure of delivery within 7 days and permit more judicious utilize of antenatal treatments [14]. Extremely preterm babies should, if possible, exist transported in utero to tertiary centres where appropriate skills are bachelor; best outcomes are achieved for babies born in centres with a high throughput of VLBW babies [15]. In cases of prenatal pre-labour rupture of membranes (PPROM), antibiotics tin delay preterm delivery and reduce neonatal morbidity, although co-amoxiclav should be avoided considering of its association with increased risk of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) [xvi]. Magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) given to women with imminent preterm commitment reduces cognitive palsy at 2 years of age by about 30% [17], although longer-term benefits are less clear [18]. Tocolytic drugs can be used in the curt-term to delay birth, permit safe transfer to a perinatal centre and permit prenatal corticosteroids fourth dimension to take issue, although tocolytics have no direct beneficial effect on the fetus [19]. Given their express value, simply drugs that are rubber for the mother should be considered, that is oxytocin antagonists or Ca-channel blockers [xx].
A single course of prenatal corticosteroids given to mothers with anticipated preterm commitment improves survival, reduces RDS, NEC and intraventricular haemorrhage and does not appear to be associated with any significant maternal or short-term fetal adverse effects [21]. Prenatal corticosteroid therapy is recommended in all pregnancies with threatened preterm birth before 34 weeks' gestation where active intendance of the newborn is predictable. Although there are limited RCT data in babies at <25 weeks' gestation, observational studies propose that antenatal corticosteroids, together with other active management practices, reduce mortality at gestations as depression as 22 weeks [22]. In pregnancies betwixt 34 and 36 weeks' gestation, prenatal steroids likewise reduce risk of curt-term respiratory morbidity but not mortality, and there is increased take a chance of neonatal hypoglycaemia [23]. Long-term follow-upwards data are broadly reassuring, albeit sketchy [24], and given the potential for long-term side-effects, steroids are not currently recommended for women in spontaneous preterm labour later 34 weeks [25]. When given before constituent Caesarean section (CS) up to 39 weeks, they reduce run a risk of admission to NICU, although the number needed to treat is >twenty and follow-upwardly information on term babies exposed to antenatal steroids are lacking [26]. The optimal treatment to delivery interval is more than 24 h and less than 7 days afterwards the showtime of steroid treatment; beyond 14 days, benefits are diminished. Beneficial effects of the offset dose of antenatal steroid start inside a few hours, then advanced dilatation should not be a reason to refrain from therapy and the same may hold for MgSO4 [27]. There is still debate as to whether steroids should be repeated i or 2 weeks later on the start class for women with threatened preterm labour. A repeat course reduces the run a risk of respiratory support. However, it decreases fetal growth, and repeat doses do not reduce mortality or other serious health outcomes. No effect on neurosensory disability in follow-up has been observed, but data on potential longer-term adverse effects are lacking [28, 29]. WHO recommends that a unmarried echo course of steroids may exist considered if preterm birth does not occur within seven days later the initial course and in that location is a high hazard of preterm birth in the adjacent seven days [xxx]. It is unlikely that repeat courses given after 32 weeks' gestation improve effect [31].
Steroids are stiff drugs with many side effects, but when given appropriately they improve effect. If not, then side effects, such as impaired fetal and placental growth, apoptosis in the brain and increased infection, may prevail. Use of steroids should be reduced by acceptable preterm birth take chances assessment and avoidance of unnecessary early on elective CS. In some cases when an early CS is needed, establishment of fetal lung maturity may be meliorate than giving steroids to all women [32]. There is little evidence that delivering preterm infants by CS rather than allowing vaginal delivery improves outcome.
Recommendations
i Mothers at high risk of preterm birth <28–xxx weeks' gestation should exist transferred to perinatal centres with experience in management of RDS (C1).
two Clinicians should offering a single course of prenatal corticosteroids to all women at risk of preterm delivery from when pregnancy is considered potentially viable until 34 weeks' gestation ideally at to the lowest degree 24 h before birth (A1).
3 A single repeat course of steroids may be given in threatened preterm birth earlier 32 weeks' gestation if the first course was administered at least one–ii weeks earlier (A2).
four MgSO4 should be administered to women in imminent labour earlier 32 weeks' gestation (A2).
5 In women with symptoms of preterm labour, cervical length and fibronectin measurements should be considered to prevent unnecessary use of tocolytic drugs and/or antenatal steroids (B2).
6 Clinicians should consider short-term use of tocolytic drugs in very preterm pregnancies to permit completion of a course of corticosteroids and/or in utero transfer to a perinatal heart (B1).
Commitment Room Stabilisation
European Resuscitation Guidelines should be used to deal with asphyxiated babies with hypoxia who need urgent airway opening manoeuvres and lung inflation to restore cardiac output [33]. Preterm babies with RDS volition usually attempt to breathe during transition at birth [34] although they may afterward struggle to maintain acceptable alveolar aeration. "Supporting transition" rather than "resuscitation" is therefore in nigh cases the preferred term in RDS management, and infants should exist immune to gently transition whilst existence exposed to a minimum number of interventions that may cause damage [35]. Birth is divers when the fetus is completely expelled from the uterus, and this is when all timing should start.
Timing of umbilical string clamping is an important first step. Clamping the cord before initiation of respiration results in an acute transient reduction in left atrial filling leading to an sharp drop in left ventricular output. Delayed "physiological" clamping after lung aeration results in much smoother transition and less bradycardia in animal models [36]. The Australian Placental Transfusion Study randomised 1,600 babies less than thirty weeks' gestation to immediate (within ten south) or delayed clamping (after 60 due south or more than) [37]. Even so, even such a large study was comparatively powered to determine a difference in the primary event of expiry or major morbidity. Combining these data in a meta-analysis with other trials shows a pregnant reduction in in-hospital mortality for preterm infants in whom cord clamping was delayed [38]. Specialist resuscitation equipment designed to maintain body temperature makes it feasible to provide advanced resuscitation with the umbilical cord intact [39]. Umbilical cord milking may be an alternative to delayed cord clamping in emergency situations [40]. Two randomised trials including 255 babies <33 weeks' gestation offered broad reassurance that short-term outcomes are broadly equivalent [41], and one follow-upward study suggested better cerebral and language scores in those randomised to cord milking [42]. However, animal studies show that cord milking causes considerable haemodynamic disturbance, and a recent clinical trial has shown quadrupling of the incidence of astringent intraventricular bleeding with string milking compared to delayed cord clamping in preterm infants calling into question the rubber of this process [43]. Subsequently birth, the baby should be placed in a clear polythene bag and nether a radiant warmer to maintain body temperature (encounter beneath).
Stimulation of the infant during stabilisation helps with establishing regular respirations [44]. Spontaneously breathing babies should be started on CPAP rather than intubated in the commitment room to reduce gamble of BPD [45]. Routine suctioning of the airway earlier starting CPAP is non benign [46]. The ideal level of CPAP is unknown, simply most studies accept used levels of at to the lowest degree 6 cm H2O with some as loftier equally 9 cm H2O. Using higher pressures up to 20–25 cm H2O for a catamenia of effectually 10–15 s at initiation of respiration (sustained inflation or SI) has been studied as a manner of avoiding intubation; even so, clinical trials have been disappointing, with no credible value of SI [47]. The Sustained Aggrandizement of Infants Lung (Sheet) trial was suspended early because of an backlog of early deaths in infants receiving the intervention [48], and until further assay of available data, SI should merely be used in clinical trials. To provide measurable CPAP from birth, the T-piece device is a amend option than a self-inflating anaesthetic bag [49], and the initial interface can either be a face mask or a short nasal prong [50]. Provision of CPAP solitary is ideal, and routine utilise of positive pressure breaths should exist discouraged [51], although gentle positive force per unit area ventilation may be required for babies who remain apnoeic or bradycardic. Heating and humidification of gases used for stabilisation is ideal in terms of preventing oestrus loss [52]. Firsthand wrapping in a polythene bag under a radiant warmer besides reduces rut loss [53], and increasing the environmental temperature in the delivery room to around 26°C is also recommended for babies less than 28 weeks [33]. Heated, humidified oxygen delivered by high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) has also been studied as a main manner of respiratory back up merely was inferior to CPAP in terms of failure, with babies randomised to HFNC frequently needing rescue with CPAP to forbid intubation [54].
Heart charge per unit assessment is important in determining infant well-being during transition. Heart rate <100/min for >2 min in the starting time v min after birth is associated with 4.five-fold increase in bloodshed [55]. Monitoring heart rate can exist washed by stethoscope, electrocardiography, pulse oximetry or photoplethysmography. Pulse oximetry signals are often delayed for up to a infinitesimal. Auscultation with a stethoscope may not be as authentic as ECG in determining heart rate during transition; however, for most units at present ECG is non universally available [56]. Provided heart rate is satisfactory, the aim is, where possible, to mimic normal transitional saturations measured at the right wrist by pulse oximetry with saturations gradually rising from about 60–ninety% over the first 10 min afterwards nascency. Blended air/oxygen should therefore be available. For term babies requiring resuscitation, there is reduced mortality when using fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) 0.21 rather than one.0 [57]. There is evidence of increased oxidative stress when starting preterm infants in 100% oxygen; however, at that place is still doubtfulness about the longer-term effects of high or low oxygen exposure at birth in preterm infants [58]. Observational studies have raised concerns most starting extremely preterm infants in air because of poorer recovery from bradycardia and increased mortality in the smallest babies [59]. Moreover, the combination of bradycardia (<100/min) and lower SpO2 (<80%) in the kickoff 5 min is associated with death or intracranial haemorrhage [threescore]. Further trials are underway to resolve this consequence. Soon, it is known that when titrating oxygen, most infants end up in well-nigh 30–40% oxygen by x min, so nosotros believe it is reasonable to start preterm infants <28 weeks in nearly 30% oxygen until more testify is available [61]. For those betwixt 28 and 31 weeks' gestation, 21–30% oxygen is recommended [62].
Only a minority of babies should require intubation for stabilisation. If intubation is required, the correct placement of the endotracheal tube tin exist quickly verified clinically by auscultation and using a colorimetric COtwo detection device before administering surfactant which in most circumstances can be done prior to radiographic confirmation of RDS.
Recommendations
i Delay clamping the umbilical cord for at least 60 s to promote placento-fetal transfusion (A1).
ii In spontaneously breathing babies, stabilise with CPAP of at to the lowest degree 6 cm H2O via mask or nasal prongs (B1). Do not apply SI as in that location is no long-term benefit (B1). Gentle positive pressure lung inflations with 20–25 cm H2O peak inspiratory pressure level (PIP) should be used for persistently apnoeic or bradycardic infants.
3 Oxygen for resuscitation should be controlled using a blender. Use an initial FiO2 of 0.30 for babies <28 weeks' gestation and 0.21–0.30 for those 28–31 weeks, 0.21 for 32 weeks' gestation and to a higher place. FiO2 adjustments up or downward should be guided by pulse oximetry (B2).
4 For infants <32 weeks' gestation, SpO2 of 80% or more (and heart rate >100/min) should be achieved inside 5 min (C2).
5 Intubation should exist reserved for babies non responding to positive pressure level ventilation via face mask or nasal prongs (A1). Babies who require intubation for stabilisation should be given surfactant (B1).
half-dozen Plastic bags or occlusive wrapping under radiant warmers should exist used during stabilisation in the delivery suite for babies <28 weeks' gestation to reduce the take chances of hypothermia (A1).
Surfactant Therapy
Surfactant therapy plays an essential role in management of RDS as it reduces pneumothorax and improves survival. However, intratracheal assistants requires skill and may cause impairment, particularly if uncontrolled positive pressure is practical to the newborn lung. Prior to 2013, prophylactic surfactant was recommended for the smallest babies every bit it improved survival in clinical trials from the pre-CPAP era [63]. Later 2013, with increased utilize of antenatal steroids and early initiation of CPAP, outcomes are best if surfactant is reserved for infants showing clinical signs of RDS, and for the smallest infants early initiation of CPAP may avoid the harmful effects of intubation and mechanical ventilation (MV) during the transitional phase. The overall aim is to avoid invasive MV if possible whilst endeavouring to give surfactant as early as possible in the course of RDS once it is accounted necessary.
Surfactant Administration Methods
Surfactant assistants requires an experienced practitioner with intubation skills and power to provide MV if required. Almost surfactant clinical trials to engagement have used tracheal intubation, bolus assistants with distribution of surfactant using intermittent positive pressure ventilation, either manually or with a ventilator, followed by a menstruation of weaning from MV as lung compliance improves. The IN-SUR-East technique allows surfactant to be given without ongoing MV and was endorsed previously as it may reduce BPD [64]. In the concluding decade, new methods for administering surfactant using a fine catheter placed in the trachea under straight or video-laryngoscopy, with the babe spontaneously breathing on CPAP, have been described, thereby fugitive exposure to positive pressure ventilation. Specialised catheters designed for this method, known as less invasive surfactant administration (LISA), are commercially available. Since the 2016 Guideline, there take been further randomised trials and meta-analyses comparing these methods. These suggest that LISA is superior in terms of reducing need for MV and the combined outcome of death or BPD [65]. Still, these meta-analyses include some studies that are open up to bias and might not be suitable for inclusion in a more than rigorous systematic review. Still, studies of higher quality, such equally those from the German Neonatal Network, all show trends for comeback favouring LISA, and it is reasonable to recommend it as the optimal method of surfactant administration for spontaneously breathing babies who are stable on CPAP. Some units also utilize strategies of prophylactic LISA for the smallest babies, although this has non all the same been tested in randomised controlled trials [66]. 1 of the advantages of LISA is that the temptation to continue MV post-obit surfactant is removed. This makes the outcome of sedation for the process more than complex. It is considered good exercise to avert discomfort during elective intubation by using a sedative or analgesic such as fentanyl, propofol or midazolam (meet later). Using low-dose sedation prior to laryngoscopy for the LISA procedure is technically feasible, will make the baby less uncomfortable only will increase the risk of CPAP failure [67]. At present, there is no clear answer well-nigh whether to sedate routinely for LISA, and individual neonatologists must decide for themselves.
Surfactant delivered by nebulisation would be truly non-invasive. With evolution of vibrating membrane nebulisers, information technology is possible to atomise surfactant, although only one clinical trial has shown that nebulising surfactant when on CPAP reduces need for MV compared to CPAP alone, and this finding was limited to a subgroup of more mature infants of 32–33 weeks [68]. Further trials of nebulisation are ongoing. Surfactant has likewise been administered by laryngeal mask airway, and ane clinical trial shows that this reduces demand for intubation and MV [69]. Even so, the size of currently available laryngeal masks limits use of the method to relatively mature preterm infants, and routine use for smaller infants at greatest chance of BPD is not recommended [70]. Pharyngeal deposition of surfactant at birth is as well currently being tested in clinical trials.
When to Treat with Surfactant?
If intubation is required every bit part of stabilisation, and so surfactant should exist given immediately, as the main purpose of avoiding surfactant prophylaxis is to avert intubation. Many preterm infants will transition successfully on CPAP. Those with RDS volition develop progressively worsening lung disease, clinically presenting as increased piece of work of animate, sternal recession and increasing oxygen requirements to maintain normal saturations. Spontaneous recovery usually begins after 48–72 h, and some infants with milder affliction may manage without surfactant, thereby avoiding the discomfort of laryngoscopy and potential deleterious furnishings of intubation. Early on trials showed that surfactant given earlier in the course of disease works better than later in terms of reducing air leaks [71] and avoiding MV if the IN-SUR-E technique is used [72]. This creates a dilemma for neonatologists. Now, severity of RDS can only exist determined clinically using a combination of FiO2 to maintain normal saturations, coupled with judgement of piece of work of breathing and degree of aeration of the lungs on chest X-ray, all of which can exist influenced by CPAP. Lung ultrasound may exist a useful adjunct to clinical decision making in experienced hands, with RDS lungs having a specific appearance that can be differentiated from other common neonatal respiratory disorders [73] and it has potential to reduce X-ray exposure [74]. Rapid bedside tests to accurately decide presence or absence of surfactant in gastric aspirate are currently beingness tested in clinical trials [75]. The 2013 Guideline suggested that surfactant should be administered when FiO2 >0.thirty for very immature babies and >0.40 for more than mature infants based on thresholds used in the early clinical trials. Observational studies have confirmed that FiO2 exceeding 0.30 in the first hours later on nativity in babies on CPAP is a reasonably expert test for predicting subsequent CPAP failure [76]. Therefore it is recommended that the threshold of FiO2 >0.thirty is used for all babies with a clinical diagnosis of RDS, especially in the early phase of worsening disease.
More than than 1 dose of surfactant may exist needed. Clinical trials comparing multiple doses to a single dose showed fewer air leaks, although these were conducted in an era when babies were maintained on MV. Today many infants are maintained on non-invasive ventilation fifty-fifty when surfactant is required. Need for re-dosing tin be minimised past using the larger dose of 200 mg/kg of poractant alfa [77]. Prediction of IN-SUR-E failure using clinical criteria and blood gases could define a population that would be reasonable to maintain on MV for a while after surfactant has been given [78, 79].
Surfactant Preparations
Surfactants currently available in Europe are shown in Table 2. Constructed surfactants containing both SP-B and SP-C analogues are too currently nether evaluation in clinical trials [lxxx]. Fauna-derived surfactants have been compared in systematic reviews [77]. About of the caput-to-caput trials show that surfactants take similar efficacy when used in similar doses; nonetheless, there is a survival reward when 200 mg/kg of poractant alfa is compared with 100 mg/kg of beractant or 100 mg/kg poractant alfa to care for RDS [77]. Surfactant combined with budesonide significantly reduces BPD [81], although further larger studies with long-term follow-upwardly volition be needed before this can be recommended [82].
Table ii.
Surfactant preparations (animal-derived) licensed in Europe in 2018
Recommendations
1 Babies with RDS should be given an animal-derived surfactant preparation (A1).
two A policy of early rescue surfactant should be standard (A1), but there are occasions when surfactant should be given in the delivery suite, such as when intubation is needed for stabilisation (A1).
three Babies with RDS should be given rescue surfactant early in the class of the disease. A suggested protocol would be to care for babies who are worsening when FiOii >0.30 on CPAP pressure of at least 6 cm H2O (B2).
four Poractant alfa at an initial dose of 200 mg/kg is better than 100 mg/kg of poractant alfa or 100 mg/kg of beractant for rescue therapy (A1).
5 LISA is the preferred style of surfactant administration for spontaneously breathing babies on CPAP, provided that clinicians are experienced with this technique (B2).
6 A second and occasionally a third dose of surfactant should exist given if at that place is ongoing testify of RDS such as persistent loftier oxygen requirement and other problems have been excluded (A1).
Oxygen Supplementation beyond Stabilisation
In the final 3 years, lilliputian has inverse in terms of refining previous recommendations for oxygen saturation targeting based on data from the NeOProm collaboration [83]. Targeting lower saturations (85–89 vs. 91–95%) reduces risk of severe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) just at expense of increasing mortality (relative risk [RR] 1.17; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.04–1.31) and NEC. Recommendations have therefore remained the same, targeting saturations between 90 and 94% by setting alert limits between 89 and 95% although it is acknowledged that platonic oxygen saturation targets are withal unknown [84]. Episodes of intermittent hypoxaemia and bradycardia are associated with increased run a risk of late death or inability at 18 months, and these should be avoided if possible [85]. Recent targeting of college saturations is associated with an increase in need for treatment for ROP [86], and in Sweden the event of increased risk of ROP has negated the sensitivity of poor postnatal growth for prediction of ROP [87]. Servo-controlled oxygen algorithms are now sufficiently adult to maintain saturations within targeted range more of the time both with ventilated infants and those receiving not-invasive respiratory support, although no studies accept been sufficiently powered to determine if there are any benign furnishings on outcome [88, 89].
Recommendations
i In preterm babies receiving oxygen, the saturation target should be between 90 and 94% (B2).
2 Alarm limits should exist set up to 89 and 95% (D2).
Not-Invasive Respiratory Back up
Recently, it has been emphasised that preterm infants should be managed without MV where possible and if ventilation is needed to minimise the time an endotracheal tube is used. Utilize of not-invasive respiratory back up has increased with an expansion of methods to achieve it, but in that location is often a paucity of show to determine which method is most effective. CPAP has been used for over 40 years with early trials showing that it improves oxygenation, regulates breathing and is effective at reducing reintubation following extubation [ninety]. CPAP is now recommended as the optimal first way of respiratory support although other modes of non-invasive back up from nascence are being tested in clinical trials [91].
CPAP involves delivering gas, ideally heated and humidified, with a measurable and controllable pressure. This pressure is transmitted using an interface such as short soft nasal prongs or mask connected tightly to the baby'due south face creating a seal. Pressures conveyed to the nasopharynx are typically kept betwixt 5 and 9 cm H2O providing several theoretical benefits including splinting the upper airway, maintaining lung expansion and preventing stop-expiratory alveolar collapse [92]. Higher pressures amend oxygenation but potentially increase take a chance of air leak. Using an underwater seal to generate the pressure, or "Bubble CPAP," generates small fluctuations around the set pressure which some believe offers additional advantage [93]. Using a flow driver to generate CPAP has the theoretical advantage of offloading expiratory work of breathing (the Coanda effect), although no of import clinical differences have been shown among devices used to deliver CPAP, but the simplicity of bubble CPAP systems allows their apply in low-income settings [94]. Trials comparing interfaces show no differences between nasal prongs and short pharyngeal tubes for initial stabilisation in the delivery room [l], but for prolonged use nasal masks may exist most effective [95]. All CPAP interfaces carry a adventure of facial distortion and nasal trauma. When weaning smaller babies from CPAP, gradual reduction rather than sudden cessation of pressure results in greater likelihood of weaning on the first attempt [96].
Bi-level CPAP or BIPAP is a variant of CPAP that uses small pressure differences between inspiratory and expiratory phases. These are typically delivered through CPAP period driver devices and generate depression PIP of about 9–11 cm H2O by and large using fairly low rates of effectually 20 and long inspiratory times of well-nigh 0.viii south. Although popular, there is no show that BIPAP confers any advantage over CPAP, and any clinical differences may but reflect a college overall mean airway pressure [97]. Modernistic ventilators with menses and pressure level sensors also provide nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation, or NIPPV, using pressures similar to those used for invasive MV. These breaths can be synchronised with breathing efforts using either an abdominal capsule or by detection of small force per unit area changes in the circuit. Recent meta-analyses of studies where NIPPV has been used every bit an alternative to CPAP post-obit extubation show that it reduces need for re-ventilation and air leaks but without any reduction in BPD [98]. Synchronisation of nasal ventilation may result in the best outcomes. There is insufficient evidence to recommend NIPPV equally chief way of respiratory support in the delivery room. Nasal interfaces have also been used with high frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV), but results accept been inconclusive [99, 100].
Heated humidified HFNC are increasingly used as an alternative to CPAP. With HFNC, heated/humidified gas is delivered to the nostrils with nasal catheters that are specifically designed not to occlude the nostrils, typically at flows of between two and 8 L/min, with weaning of flow charge per unit determined clinically by FiO2 remaining depression and judgement of work of breathing [101]. Whilst an amount of pressure is invariably generated within the nasopharynx, the primary mode of activeness probably relates to gas workout and nasopharyngeal dead space CO2 washout. In clinical trials, HFNC is broadly equivalent to CPAP for babies >28 weeks coming off MV with greater ease of use and less nasal trauma, although there is less evidence for smaller babies [102]. Centres familiar with the use of HFNC argue that with experience it can exist used for initial support even in some of the smallest babies [103, 104]. In the HIPSTER trial, HFNC was compared with CPAP every bit a primary way of support in the commitment room for infants >28 weeks, merely the trial was stopped early on because more infants started on HFNC needed rescue with CPAP [54]. At present, CPAP remains the preferred initial method of non-invasive back up.
There are likely to exist further refinements of non-invasive back up over the side by side few years. Better synchronisation of ventilator support with the baby's ain breathing efforts can be accomplished using neurally adapted ventilator assistance, and big clinical trials of these newer modes of back up are urgently needed [105].
Recommendations
ane CPAP should be started from birth in all babies at risk of RDS, such equally those <30 weeks' gestation who do not need intubation for stabilisation (A1).
2 The organization delivering CPAP is of little importance; withal, the interface should be short binasal prongs or mask with a starting pressure of almost half-dozen–8 cm HiiO (A2). Positive end-expiratory pressure level (PEEP) tin so be individualised depending on clinical condition, oxygenation and perfusion (D2).
3 CPAP with early on rescue surfactant is considered optimal management for babies with RDS (A1).
iv Synchronised NIPPV, if delivered through a ventilator rather than BIPAP device, can reduce extubation failure just may not confer long-term advantages such every bit reduction in BPD (B2).
5 During weaning, HFNC can be used as an culling to CPAP for some babies with the advantage of less nasal trauma (B2).
MV Strategies
Despite best intentions to maximise not-invasive support, many small infants will initially require MV, and about half of those less than 28 weeks' gestation will fail their outset endeavor at extubation with these having higher mortality and morbidity [106]. The aim of MV is to provide "adequate" blood gases whilst avoiding lung injury which is typically caused past also high or likewise low pressure level delivery. The principle of MV is to inflate atelectatic lung, optimising lung volume for even distribution of tidal volumes at pressures set to prevent atelectasis and over-amplification. Over-inflation increases risk of air leaks such as pneumothorax and pulmonary interstitial emphysema. Ventilation at also depression a pressure risks areas of lung condign repeatedly atelectatic during expiration, which can generate inflammation.
Modern ventilators with period sensors tin can reasonably accurately measure gas volumes inbound and leaving the endotracheal tube and utilise this information to apply limits to the amount of back up delivered in order to prevent lung over-distension. Volume-targeted ventilation (VTV) enables clinicians to ventilate with less variable tidal volumes and real-fourth dimension weaning of pressure as lung compliance improves. VTV compared with time-cycled pressure ventilation results in less time on the ventilator, fewer air leaks and less BPD [107]. An initial set tidal book of about 5 mL/kg and an estimated maximum PIP according to observation of breast motion may need to be adapted according to the infant'southward own respiratory efforts and gas exchange assessment. The required set tidal volume may need to be increased with increasing postnatal historic period if the baby remains ventilated [108]. Maintaining an "open up lung" is accomplished past adjusting PEEP with optimal level for a given babe being divers as that at which FiO2 is at its everyman with adequate blood gases and haemodynamic stability [109]. Supporting the infants' own respiratory efforts with modes such as pressure back up rather than synchronised intermittent mandatory ventilation also seems sensible even though no differences in clinical outcomes have been shown [110].
HFOV is an alternative strategy to conventional MV allowing gas exchange to be accomplished using very modest tidal volumes delivered at very fast rates with the lung held open at optimal inflation using a continuous distending pressure (CDP). The optimal CDP on HFOV is determined clinically past finding the pressure at which oxygenation deteriorates during stepwise reduction from full inflation and aiming for 1–two cm H2O above this [111]. Studies comparing HFOV to conventional MV bear witness modest reductions in BPD favouring HFOV, although in that location is a relative paucity of trials where volume targeting is used in the conventional MV arm [112]. Volume targeting in HFOV may reduce CO2 variability and allow even lower tidal volumes to be used [113]. Neurally adjusted ventilator aid ventilation offers the potential for better synchronisation of ventilator support with infants' ain respiratory needs in real time, simply further research on effectiveness of this mode is required before it can be recommended [114]. Modern ventilators at present as well have the option of servo-controlled oxygen delivery. This increases time spent in the desired saturation range and reduces hyperoxia, just there are no trials to prove this improves outcomes [115, 116]. Whatever ventilation mode is used within an individual unit, it is of import that all staff are familiar with its employ.
Once stabilised on MV and spontaneous breathing is present, clinicians should immediately consider strategies for weaning. At that place is no testify favouring any particular weaning protocol [117]. Hypocarbia and severe hypercarbia are associated with worse outcomes and should exist avoided by regular or continuous assessment of CO2. VTV manner enables automated weaning of PIP in real-time as compliance improves. Some babies will only crave ventilation for a very short period of fourth dimension, particularly those with RDS post-obit surfactant therapy who can be rapidly weaned to depression ventilator settings. Early extubation of even the smallest babies is encouraged provided it is judged clinically prophylactic [118]. Infant's size, absence of growth restriction, FiOii and blood gases are all determinants of extubation success [106]. Keeping small-scale babies on low-rate MV for longer does not ameliorate risk of extubation success [119]. Extubation may be successful from 7 to viii cm HtwoO MAP on conventional modes and from 8 to nine cm H2O CDP on HFOV. Spontaneous breathing tests to predict extubation readiness are sometimes used merely there is fiddling evidence to show they are effective [120]. Extubating to a relatively higher CPAP pressure of 7–9 cm HiiO or NIPPV will improve chance of success [121]. Several other strategies have been used specifically to shorten duration of MV including permissive hypercarbia, caffeine therapy, postnatal steroid treatment and avoiding over-use of sedation.
Permissive Hypercarbia
Targeting arterial COtwo levels in the moderately hypercarbic range is an accepted strategy to reduce time on MV [122]. The PHELBI trial explored tolerating even college PaCOtwo upwards to most ten kPa compared to 8 kPa in preterm babies <29 weeks for the kickoff xiv days. Assay was performed on 359 of a planned 1,534 infants later on the written report was stopped early on, and there was no departure in the primary outcome of death or BPD but trends to worse outcomes in the higher target group [123]. Follow-up of this cohort and others suggests no long-term adverse sequelae of permissive hypercarbia and information technology is therefore reasonable to allow moderate elevation of PaCOii during weaning provided the pH is acceptable [124].
Caffeine Therapy
Optimising success of non-invasive support involves utilize of caffeine therapy equally a respiratory stimulant. Most information about the clinical furnishings of caffeine comes from the Caffeine for Apnea of Prematurity (CAP) study accomplice where 2,006 babies <1,251 chiliad coming off ventilation or with apnoeic episodes were randomised to caffeine or placebo. Caffeine facilitated earlier extubation with reduction in BPD and better neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18 months [125, 126]. In this cohort, at age xi years the caffeine-treated children had improve respiratory function [127] and reduced take a chance of motor damage [128]. Caffeine prophylaxis soon subsequently admission has become standard based on cohort studies showing that earlier initiation of caffeine is associated with better outcomes [129]; however, a clinical trial of condom caffeine versus placebo was abandoned early on considering of perceived worse upshot in the caffeine-treated group [130]. The standard dosing regimen of caffeine citrate is loading with xx mg/kg followed by maintenance of 5–10 mg/kg/day. Higher doses of up to 20 mg/kg/day may exist fifty-fifty more effective [131], only this needs further testing in randomised trials as higher doses are also associated with increased risk of cerebellar haemorrhage, hypertonicity and increased seizure brunt [132].
Postnatal Steroids
Despite best efforts to optimise apply of non-invasive support, some infants volition remain on MV with the risk of lung inflammation and increased risk of BPD. Breaking this cycle using systemic corticosteroids is possible, and there are at present over 50 randomised controlled trials studying the risks and benefits of various corticosteroid regimens [133, 134]. Dexamethasone increases the chance of successful extubation and reduces BPD just at the expense of increased risk of neurodevelopmental sequelae if used in the first week [133, 135]. We previously recommended that the smallest effective dose should be used and only for babies at highest take chances of BPD such equally those who remain ventilator-dependent after 1–2 weeks. There is anecdotal evidence that starting doses of dexamethasone as low as 0.05 mg/kg/day might be effective [136, 137] but the Minidex RCT failed to recruit enough participants to confirm this. Depression-dose safety hydrocortisone also reduced BPD [138] with improved neurological outcomes in a subgroup of infants of less than 25 weeks' gestation [139].
Inhaled budesonide seems an obvious logical alternative to systemic steroids. A recent Cochrane review of early inhaled budesonide suggests a reduction in BPD [140]. The NEUROSIS trial specifically designed and powered to answer this question confirmed that prophylactic inhaled budesonide reduces both persistent ductus arteriosus (PDA) and BPD; nonetheless, in that location was a worrying trend towards increased mortality earlier discharge [141]. Follow-up of the NEUROSIS trial cohort showed no departure in neurodevelopmental outcomes only once again raised concerns nearly backlog bloodshed in infants randomised to receive budesonide [142]. Meta-analysis of 17 trials of early or late inhaled corticosteroids including 1807 babies showed significant reduction in BPD (RR [95% CI] 0.79 [0.68–0.92]) without any increase in bloodshed (RR [95% CI] i.04 [0.59–1.68]) offering reassurance that inhaled corticosteroids could be added to current management of developing BPD in preterm infants [140, 143].
Hurting and Sedation
Sedation and analgesia are controversial problems in RDS management [144]. The number of painful procedures experienced in the kickoff month of life is associated with lower cognitive development and head circumference at 1 twelvemonth, although this is unlikely to be direct cause and issue [145]. Whilst the condolement of the baby needs to be considered, there is a tension between appropriate analgesia and the effects of sedation causing harm particularly when in that location is an emphasis of minimising duration of invasive respiratory support. Laryngoscopy is undoubtedly uncomfortable, just when attempting LISA there is a better chance of achieving a success without sedation [67]. For planned non-urgent intubations, many clinicians prefer to use a combination of a short-acting opiate, muscle relaxant and atropine to maximise condolement [146] and better chances of successful intubation [147]. Longer-acting muscle relaxants like vecuronium may increase the demand for ventilation and should not exist used [148]. Routine sedation of ventilated neonates with opiates or midazolam is not supported by evidence [149, 150]. Sucrose analgesia and other non-pharmacological methods may be employed to reduce minor procedural pain [151].
Recommendations
one Subsequently stabilisation, MV should be used in babies with RDS when other methods of respiratory support have failed (A1). Duration of MV should exist minimised (B2).
2 The principal choice of ventilation mode is at discretion of clinical squad; however, if conventional MV is used, targeted tidal volume ventilation should be employed (A1).
3 When weaning from MV, it is reasonable to tolerate a pocket-size degree of hypercarbia provided the pH remains above 7.22 (B2).
4 Caffeine should be used to facilitate weaning from MV (A1). Early on caffeine should be considered for babies at loftier risk of needing MV such as those on non-invasive respiratory support (C1).
five A short tapering course of low dose or very low dexamethasone should exist considered to facilitate extubation in babies who remain on MV later 1–2 weeks (A2).
6 Inhaled budesonide can be considered for infants at very loftier risk of BPD (A2).
seven Opioids should exist used selectively when indicated by clinical judgment and evaluation of pain indicators (D1). The routine apply of morphine or midazolam infusions in ventilated preterm infants is not recommended (A1).
Monitoring and Supportive Care
To achieve best outcomes for preterm babies with RDS, optimal supportive care with monitoring physiological variables is of import. Oxygen blenders should be available in the delivery room and in the NICU. Pulse oximetry from nativity provides information of response to stabilisation. In the NICU, there should be admission to continuous pulse oximetry, ECG monitoring and monitoring of PaCO2 levels. Detection of exhaled CO2 tin ensure correct placement of endotracheal tubes, and continuous measurement of end-tidal COii also gives useful information showing trends in gas commutation. Umbilical arterial cannulation is indicated if it is anticipated at that place will exist demand for regular blood gas analyses. Transcutaneous oxygen and COii monitoring can also be used to access continuous information for trending but can cause skin injury particularly in the most immature infants [152]. Methods of monitoring cognitive oxygenation are also available with potential to assess cerebral saturation, but no articulate clinical benefit has been identified [153]. Close monitoring of serum electrolytes and haematological values is necessary ideally using micro-sampling techniques. Blood pressure should be recorded by indwelling arterial lines or intermittently using canonical oscillometric devices. Around-the-clock admission to radiology services and portable ultrasound is also essential as these are oft used to ostend RDS diagnosis, exclude air leaks and confirm correct placement of endotracheal tubes and central lines.
Temperature Control
Maintaining body temperature betwixt 36.5 and 37.5°C at all times is recommended [33] every bit hypothermia is associated with worse outcome, although it is unclear if this is direct cause and upshot [154]. Subsequently birth, immediate wrapping in a polythene bag under a radiant warmer reduces heat loss [53]. Servo-controlled incubators with pare temperature set at 36.5°C subtract neonatal mortality [155]. Following stabilisation, infants should be nursed in incubators with high relative humidity to reduce insensible water losses. For the smallest babies, humidity of sixty–fourscore% should be used initially and reduced equally pare integrity improves. Kangaroo Mother Intendance (KMC) is an effective ways of maintaining temperature and improving outcomes in lower income settings and is increasingly being used in NICU to maximise maternal-infant bonding even in ventilated babies with the potential for benefits beyond infirmary discharge [156, 157].
Antibiotics
Antibiotics are oftentimes started in babies with RDS until sepsis has been ruled out but policies should be in place to narrow the spectrum and minimise unnecessary exposure. Routine antibiotic prophylaxis may do more harm than good [158]. Guidelines ordinarily offer advice on when to screen for sepsis based on boosted risk factors such equally maternal chorioamnionitis or early signs of septicaemia to ensure that antibiotics are just prescribed for those at greatest risk [159]. It is reasonable non to use routine antibiotics in preterm babies with RDS at low adventure such as following planned delivery past elective CS. If screening is necessary, then antibiotics are started empirically whilst waiting for test results. For those who have been started empirically on antibiotics, the shortest possible course should be used and stopping after 36 h is achievable and considered expert practice [160].
Early on Fluids and Nutritional Back up
The smallest infants have very loftier initial transcutaneous losses of water, and water and sodium movement from the interstitial to the intravascular compartments making fluid balance challenging. Typically, fluids are initiated at nearly lxx–80 mL/kg/day and adjustments individualised according to fluid residual, weight change and serum electrolyte levels. A pocket-sized early postnatal weight loss is normal. Regimens with more than restricted fluids have better outcomes with reductions in PDA, NEC and BPD [161]. Delaying introduction of sodium supplementation until beyond the third mean solar day or 5% weight loss volition besides improve effect [162]. Parenteral nutrition should be started immediately as enteral feeding is initially express. Early initiation of higher levels of parenteral amino acids results in less postnatal growth failure and an increment in positive protein balance [163]. At to the lowest degree 1.v g/kg intravenous protein [164] and 1–ii grand/kg lipids should be started from 24-hour interval one and increased to a maximum of 3.5 m/kg amino acrid [165]. For stable infants, a small amount (0.5–ane mL/kg/h) of chest milk can be started early on to initiate enteral feeding [166]. There is no evidence of increased NEC with advancing feeds adequately speedily upwards to 30 mL/kg/day in stable VLBW babies [167]. Mother'south milk is the preferred selection for initiation of feeding; however, if not available so pasteurised donor breast milk is amend than formula for reducing risk of NEC but will result in slower postnatal growth [168].
Recommendations
one Core temperature should be maintained betwixt 36.5 and 37.5°C at all times (C1).
2 Most babies should exist started on intravenous fluids of lxx–fourscore mL/kg/day in a humidified incubator, although some very immature babies may demand more (C2). Fluids must be tailored individually according to serum sodium levels, urine output and weight loss (D1).
3 Parenteral nutrition should be started from birth. Amino acids 1–2 g/kg/day should exist started from twenty-four hours one and speedily built upwardly to two.5–3.5 yard/kg/twenty-four hour period (C2). Lipids should be started from day 1 and congenital upwardly to a maximum of 4.0 g/kg/day if tolerated (C2).
4 Enteral feeding with mother's milk should exist started from the first day if the baby is haemodynamically stable (B2).
Managing Claret Pressure level and Perfusion
Antenatal steroids, delayed string clamping and avoidance of MV are associated with higher mean claret force per unit area later birth. Hypotension and low systemic blood period are associated with adverse long-term outcome, although thresholds for intervention and optimal treatment are unclear [169]. Blood pressure is lower with decreasing gestation and increases gradually over the first 24 h of life but varies widely at each gestational age [170]. Defining hypotension as a mean arterial force per unit area less than gestational age in weeks is widely accustomed; nevertheless, many babies with RDS will breach this threshold and there is no testify that treating "numerically defined" hypotension volition influence consequence [169, 171]. Neonatologist-performed functional echocardiography is a useful offshoot to cess of hypotension which may exist related to hypovolaemia, large left-to-right ductal shunts or myocardial dysfunction, although formal governance of training for this skill is needed in Europe [172]. Hypovolaemia is probably over-diagnosed, and administration of saline boluses is associated with poorer outcomes [173]. Dopamine is more constructive than dobutamine at increasing claret pressure in hypotensive infants, although dobutamine or epinephrine may be a more rational choice in the setting of reduced ventricular part [174]. Randomised trials exploring thresholds for intervention with inotropes have been unsuccessful due to poor recruitment; even so, a recent observational study showed that preterm infants treated for isolated hypotension, defined equally mean arterial pressure level less than gestational age, had a higher survival rate raising caution about "permissive hypotension" [175]. Hydrocortisone is likewise a reasonable choice for extremely preterm infants with hypotension, particularly those with documented low serum cortisol [176, 177].
PDA may provide clinical problems for very preterm babies with RDS. All infants start life with an open ductus arteriosus, and almost will close spontaneously. Cyclooxygenase inhibitors such every bit indomethacin or ibuprofen promote ductal closure, although ibuprofen has fewer side furnishings [178]. Paracetamol tin can also promote successful ductal closure perchance with fewer renal side furnishings than ibuprofen [179]. Meta-analyses of all available studies suggest high-dose oral ibuprofen gives better PDA closure rates than intravenous ibuprofen or indomethacin, although no particular regimen compared with placebo influenced any important long-term event [180]. Routine indomethacin or ibuprofen treatment of all infants to promote PDA closure is not considered expert practice [181]. Permissive tolerance of PDA is a strategy which is being studied in clinical trials [182]. Surgical ligation of PDA should only be considered if medical therapy has failed and the PDA is causing significant clinical problems [183].
Maintaining a reasonable haemoglobin (Hb) concentration is besides of import. Randomised trials comparing targeting more restrictive versus more liberal Hb concentrations (about i–ii thousand/dL lower) result in reduced demand for blood transfusion without affecting infirmary outcomes, and recent British Commission for Standards in Haematology based their thresholds on these more restrictive thresholds [184]. Nonetheless post hoc analysis of long-term follow-up data from i report showed some improve cerebral outcomes in those with more than liberal Hb thresholds highlighting the demand for further studies in this surface area [185, 186]. It remains unclear whether a liberal or restrictive transfusion policy is best.
Recommendations
1 Treatment of hypotension is recommended when it is confirmed by show of poor tissue perfusion such every bit oliguria, acidosis and poor capillary return rather than purely on numerical values (C2).
2 If a decision is made to attempt therapeutic closure of the PDA then indomethacin, ibuprofen or paracetamol tin can be used (A2).
three Haemoglobin (Hb) concentration should exist maintained inside acceptable limits. Hb thresholds for infants with severe cardiopulmonary disease are 12 grand/dL (HCT 36%), 11 g/dL (HCT thirty%) for those who are oxygen dependent and 7 g/dL (HCT 25%) for stable infants beyond ii weeks of age (C2).
Miscellaneous
Since the 2010 Guidelines, we have included a brief section on aspects of RDS management that arise infrequently. Genetic mutations affecting surfactant systems such as congenital SP-B and ABCA3 deficiency are usually fatal and beyond the scope of this guideline. Surfactant therapy may too exist useful in situations where secondary surfactant inactivation occurs such as ventilated babies with severe pneumonia [187], pulmonary haemorrhage [188] or meconium aspiration syndrome [189]. There are no indications for routine or rescue use of inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) in preterm babies [190]. Yet, iNO continues to exist used particularly in the setting of PPROM and documented pulmonary hypertension based on the ascertainment that oxygenation can be acutely improved, although evidence for improved longer term outcomes is weak [191], and in that location is new evidence of an association betwixt iNO therapy and childhood cancer [192]. Until clinical trials are completed, decisions regarding use of this expensive therapy should be taken on a case by case basis and treatment stopped quickly if there is no obvious response.
Recommendations
1 Surfactant tin be used for RDS complicated by congenital pneumonia (C2).
2 Surfactant therapy can be used to meliorate oxygenation following pulmonary haemorrhage (C1).
3 Use of iNO in preterm babies should be used with caution and express to those in clinical studies or as a therapeutic trial when at that place is severe documented pulmonary hypertension (D2).
Disclosure Statement
A European panel of experts was convened nether the auspices of the European Society of Paediatric Enquiry (ESPR) to update evidence-based guidelines on the management of RDS. The guidelines were prepared using bear witness-based methods equally summarised in Table 1. Henry Halliday and Christian Speer are or have been consultants to Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, the manufacturer of a leading animal-derived surfactant preparation used to care for RDS and a caffeine production for treatment of apnoea of prematurity. Virgilio Carnielli is a member of the Chiesi Farmaceutici Advisory Board. Henry Halliday and Christian Speer are articulation Chief Editors of Neonatology.
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