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Published on: August 7, 2017
Heart rate and leukocytes after air and ground transportation in artificially ventilated neonates: a prospective
Stefan Grosek1, Gorazd Mlakar, Ivan Vidmar
1Department of Pediatric Surgery and Intensive Care, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Zaloska 7, 1525, Ljubljana, Slovenia. stefan.grosek@mf.uni-lj.si
Objective:
To evaluate the effect of interhospital air and ground transportation of artificially ventilated neonates on heart rate and peripheral blood leukocyte counts.
Design:
Prospective, observational study.
Setting:
Level III multidisciplinary Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
Patients:
Fifty-eight near-term artificially ventilated transported neonates between May 2006 and April 2007.
Interventions:
Day-helicopter, day- and night-ground transportation.
Measurements And Results:
Heart rate at retrieval, on admission to the ICU and 1 h later, and peripheral blood leukocyte counts on admission and 1 d later were compared. Fifteen neonates were transported by helicopter during the daytime (D-HEL), 20 by daytime ground and 23 by nighttime ground transportation (D-GROUND, N-GROUND). No differences in delivery mode, birth weight, gestational age, gender, primary diagnoses for transportation, response time and duration of transportation were found between the groups. Similarly, no differences in pH, pCO(2), blood pressure and skin temperature at retrieval and on admission to the ICU were found between the three groups. The mean heart rate at retrieval did not differ significantly, while on arrival in the ICU and 1 h later the D-GROUND group of patients showed a significantly higher mean heart rate compared to the D-HEL and N-GROUND groups. Moreover, leukocyte counts on arrival in the ICU showed significantly higher leukocyte counts in the D-GROUND group of patients compared to the D-HEL group of patients.
Conclusions:
These results demonstrate that there is an association between daytime ground transportation and higher heart rate and peripheral blood leukocytes.
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