TY  - JOUR
T1  - PUlmonary function following feeding in low-birth-weight infants-reply
AU  - KRAUSS AN
Y1  - 1979/02/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130020113028
JO  - American Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 221
EP  - 221
VL  - 133
IS  - 2
N2  - In Reply.—All four infants in this study demonstrated a drop in peripheral blood flow, either immediately on completion of feeding or within five minutes of feeding. In two, prefeeding levels of blood flow returned within 15 minutes of feeding; in the other two, within 30 minutes. The mean drop in blood flow was approximately 1.25 ± 0.95 mL/min/dL of limb volume. This is similar in magnitude although not as long in duration as the drop reported by Yao and colleagues.1Infants in the neonatal intensive care unit at the New York Hospital are provided with indwelling arterial catheters because of apparent or anticipated respiratory distress or shock. Many of these low-birth-weight, high-risk infants stabilize within a short period after admission. Since this cannot always be predicted, and because of the assistance possible from intra-aortic blood gas values and blood pressures, umbilical arterial catheters are placed. Precisely because those
SN  - 0002-922X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130020113028
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130020113028
ER  -