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Noninvasive Electrocardiography in the Perinatal Mouse
Published on: June 12, 2020
NeoBeat offers rapid newborn heart rate assessment
Jessica Brittany Bush1, Victoria Cooley2, Jeffrey Perlman2
1Department of Pediatrics, New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA jeb9245@nyp.org.
Background:
Heart rate (HR) is used to guide interventions during delivery room (DR) neonatal resuscitation. Dry electrode ECG (NeoBeat) may detect HR more rapidly than pulse oximetry (PO) and portable ECG, but real-time comparisons of these devices are lacking.
Design/Methods:
PO, ECG and NeoBeat were placed sequentially on newborns in the DR. Time for device placement and time to accurate HR acquisition were noted.
Results:
DR resuscitations of 28 preterm/term infants were observed. The NeoBeat was placed faster (ie, 3 s) than PO (20 s, p=<0.0001) and ECG (16 s, p=<0.0001). Total time from initiation of device placement to HR acquisition was fastest with NeoBeat (13 s) versus ECG (42 s, p<0.0001) and PO (105 s, p<0.0001) (duration values=median).
Conclusions:
These observations in a small cohort of relatively well neonates demonstrate that the NeoBeat is significantly faster to place and consistently acquires HR faster than PO and ECG.
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