Innovation in Neonatal Intensive Care

1. Innovation in Neonatal Intensive Care Jeanne Mrozek, MD Medical Director, NICU, Children’s Hospital MN- Minneapolis Tom George, MD Medical Director, NICU, University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital Associate Director, Pediatric Residency Program, University of Minnesota

2. A look back…

5. Surfactant • Ist Trial 1980 • FDA approval

6. Respiratory support • Conventional • High frequency oscillator • High frequency Jet • Nitric oxide • NAVA • ECMO • Incubators • Nutrition • TPN • Milk banks • Family Centered Care • Vermont Oxford Network

7. Procedural Pain in Neonates • Critical infant may experience > 480 painful procedures during an NICU stay • Negative long-term consequences • Increased morbidity • Increased risk IVH • Increased mortality • 33 week neonates have average of 10 painful procedures/day • Physiological and behavioral instability • Increased oxidative stress • Reduced body and head circumference growth

8. Neonatal • Topical anesthesia • Sucrose • Positioning • Distraction

9. EMLA and Neonates • In neonates, EMLA reduces behavioral pain response to venipuncture but not heel lance. • Effective for neonates > 34 weeks gestation for lumbar puncture

10. Sucrose Reduces pain and cry during painful procedures • Effective dose (24%) 0,05-0.5 ml • Administer 2 minutes prior to mild=moderately painful procedure • Duration- 4 minutes • Breastfeeding

11. Integrative Therapies for Neonates Nonpharmacologic, supportive measures: • Breastfeeding (Shah PS, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2006, Issue 3) • Sucrose (Stevens B, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2004, Issue 3 • Nesting/Swaddling • Kangaroo care (Gray, Pediatrics 2000; Johnston APAM 2003) • Dimming light & noise Premature 28-36 wks: For heelstick, Kangaroo care more effective than oral glucose, which is more effective than placebo

13. Morphine does NOT provide adequate analgesia for acute procedural pain among preterm neonates • Combination of sucrose and radiant warmth effective analgesic in newborns; reduces pain better than sucrose alone

14. Swaddling, facilitated tucking, kangaroo care

16. Needle Pain Prevention • Treatment protocol for painful procedures is expected standard of care in 21st century • Components • Topical anesthesia • Sucrose • Position • Integrative therapies/distraction

17. Monitoring in the NICU • Critically ill newborns require intense monitoring to make decisions regarding diagnosis and treatment • Advances over the last few years in: • neonatal monitoring of neurologic and cardiopulmonary health • newer uses for old imaging modalities

18. Neonatal seizures • Several causes for neonatal seizures • Estimated incidence of concern for neonatal seizures 1 in 200 to 500 newborns

19. Neurologic monitoring • aEEG – amplitude integrated EEG • allows for continuous neuromonitoring for seizures or abnormal neuroactivity • easy to apply to screen for seizures, available 24/7 if full EEG is not easily accessible

20. NIRS monitoring • Neonates have a wide variety of cardiopulmonary complications caused by several different diagnoses • Blood pressure is of limited value as a clinical guide to treatment • Echocardiogram can provide data but is not immediately available in all units • Expanding role for Near-infrared spectroscopy monitoring (NIRS)

21. NIRS monitoring • Uses a beam of light in the near infrared range (700-1000 mm) that passes through tissue, and measures absorption and scattering of photons • Qualitatively measures cerebral or somatic (renal, splanchnic) oxygenation • Helps determine goals for blood pressure, volume • Reflects real-time changes in regional tissue perfusion adequacy, may precede changes in systemic parameters

22. NIRS

23. Monitoring for sepsis • Heart rate characteristics monitoring • Abnormal HRC in neonatal sepsis • UVA generated a HRC index, that is displayed by a HeRO monitor • HeRO renders a score every hour that is the risk of infection in the next 24 hours

24. HRC monitoring • 22% reduction in mortality Fairchild et al Ped Res 2013

25. Pediatric Research •  (2016) • 80, •  465–471 Ultrasound use in the NICU • Routinely used to screen for intracranial pathology • Targeted neonatal echocardiography in real time for rapid assessment de Boode et al, Pediatr Res 2016 • Use for diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distrss syndrome and transient tachypnea of the newborn Vergine et al  Neonatology, 2014

26. Ultrasound use in the NICU • Use for diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distrss syndrome and transient tachypnea of the newborn Vergine et al Neonatology. 2014 • For diagnosis of necrotizing enterocolitis Engel et al Ultrasound Q 2012

27. Ultrasound use in the NICU • For guiding placement of umbilical and other central lines Engel et al Ultrasound Q 2012 • For endotracheal tube placement Sim et al Resuscitation 2016

28. Thank you!

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30. References • Greisen et al Has the time come to use near-infrared spectroscopy as a routine clinical tool inn preterm infants undergoing intensive care? Phil Trans R Soc 2011 369,4440-4451 • Fairchild et al Septicemia mortality reduction in neonates in a heart rate characteristics monitoring trial Pediatr Res 2013 Nov;74(5):570 • de Boode et al, Pediatr Res 2016 Recommendations for neonatoligst performed echocardiography in Europe: Consensus statement endorsed by European Society for Paediatric Research (ESPR) and European Societry for Neonatology (ESN) 80:465-471-5 • Vergine et al  Neonatology. Lung ultrasound accuracy in respiratory distress syndrome and transient tachypnea of he newborn. 2014;106(2):87–93 • Engel et al Ultrasound Q 2012 Underutilized ultrasound applications in the neonatal intensive care unit. 28 (4): 299-304 • Sim et al Resuscitation 2016 The utility of ultasonography to confirm proper endotracheal tube placement in neonates Pages e19–e20)