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Neonatal hypoglycemia screening practices in infants born to mothers without glucose tolerance testing
Jenna Scholl1, Adharsh Ponnapakkam2,3, Ruben Molina4
1Department of Pediatrics, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Objective:
This study describes neonatal hypoglycemia (NH) screening for infants born to mothers without adequate oral glucose tolerance testing (OGTT).
Study Design:
In this single-center, retrospective study, authors reviewed live births of term and late-preterm infants at a single military hospital from 2014 to 2021. All mothers without adequate OGTT were identified. Charts were evaluated to assess NH screening practices for infants.
Results:
Out of 13,338 deliveries, 0.98% (131) of infants were born to mothers without adequate OGTT. One hundred and two of these infants had no other indication for NH screening. Sixty-eight percent (69/102) of these infants were screened with at least one point of care (POC) blood glucose measurement and 61.7% (63/102) were screened with at least three POC glucose measurements.
Conclusion:
A small percentage of mothers in this population didn't receive adequate OGTT. Sixty-eight percent of the infants born to these mothers were screened for NH.
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