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ReviewFrontiers in pediatrics2016

Oxygen Supplementation to Stabilize Preterm Infants in the Fetal to Neonatal Transition: No Satisfactory Answer.

Isabel Torres-Cuevas, Maria Cernada, Antonio Nuñez, Javier Escobar, Julia Kuligowski, Consuelo Chafer-Pericas, Maximo Vento

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Review in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Intermittent hypoxemia and oxidative stress in preterm infants.Respiratory physiology & neurobiology · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Isabel Torres-CuevasNeonatal Research Group, Health Research Institute La Fe , Valencia , Spain.
Maria CernadaNeonatal Research Group, Health Research Institute La Fe , Valencia , Spain.
Antonio NuñezNeonatal Research Group, Health Research Institute La Fe , Valencia , Spain.
Javier EscobarNeonatal Research Group, Health Research Institute La Fe , Valencia , Spain.
Julia KuligowskiNeonatal Research Group, Health Research Institute La Fe , Valencia , Spain.
Consuelo Chafer-PericasNeonatal Research Group, Health Research Institute La Fe , Valencia , Spain.
Maximo VentoNeonatal Research Group, Health Research Institute La Fe, Valencia, Spain; Division of Neonatology, University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain; Spanish Maternal, Infant and Developmental Network (Red SAMID), Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Madrid, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fetal life elapses in a relatively low oxygen environment. Immediately after birth with the initiation of breathing, the lung expands and oxygen availability to tissue rises by twofold, generating a physiologic oxidative stress. However, both lung anatomy and function and the antioxidant defense system do not mature until late in gestation, and therefore, very preterm infants often need respiratory support and oxygen supplementation in the delivery room to achieve postnatal stabilization. Notably, interventions in the first minutes of life can have long-lasting consequences. Recent trials have aimed to assess what initial inspiratory fraction of oxygen and what oxygen targets during this transitional period are best for extremely preterm infants based on the available nomogram. However, oxygen saturation nomogram informs only of term and late preterm infants but not on extremely preterm infants. Therefore, the solution to this conundrum may still have to wait before a satisfactory answer is available.

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biomarkersfree radicalsoxidative stressoxygenoxygen saturationprematuritypulse oximetry

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PMID27148504
PMCPMC4835680

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