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Limitations of thoracic impedance monitoring for central apnoea detection in preterm infants

Thoracic impedance respiratory monitoring (IM) is widely used in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for apnoea detection in preterm infants. However, IM may fail to identify apnoeic events by misinterpreting cardiac impedance changes as breathing, particularly during bradycardia. Such false negative (FN) episodes preclude alarm initiated intervention by nurses prior to the onset of apnoea-associated bradycardia and/or hypoxia. Conversely, IM may fail to recognise shallow breathing, resulting in false positive (FP) signalling of apnoea.

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Publication title

Acta Paediatrica

Volume

110

Issue

9

Pagination

2550-2552

ISSN

0803-5253

Department/School

Menzies Institute for Medical Research

Publisher

Taylor & Francis As

Place of publication

Cort Adelersgt 17, Po Box 2562, Solli, Oslo, Norway, 0202

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Socio-economic Objectives

Treatment of human diseases and conditions

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