Active clinical trials for "Infant, Premature, Diseases"

In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), infants encounter many sensory stimuli (excessive noise, bright lights, painful medical applications, etc.) that are not present in the uterus. During the critical period of brain development, this sensory overload affects the physiological responses of infants; It can lead to sensory processing problems by causing negative changes in motor, neurological and sensory development. Sensory processing was explained by Dunn as the emergence of appropriate reactions and behaviors in neurological processes in which visual, auditory, tactile, oral, olfactory, vestibular, proprioceptive and kinesthetic inputs are regulated.

This study is the determination of the Turkish version of the Peabody Developmental Motor Scale-2 and its Turkish validity reliability in infants age between 0 - 24 months and to spread its use for evaluation in early rehabilitation in our country.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the growth of the lung and how easily gas can be taken up by the lung in healthy infants born at full term without any breathing problems and infants born prematurely.

Preterms are usually fed with intervals of either two or three hours during their stay in neonatal intensive care unit. Recommendations of World Health Organization about feeding regimens, 3-hourly for infants 1500 - 2000 gr, and 2-hourly for infants 1000 - 1500 gr, are not proposed with regards to results of randomized controlled trials. Investigators aimed to investigate the impact of 2-hourly feeding on time of transition from orogastric to oral feeding.

Repeated transfusions have been associated with very poor outcome of preterm infants. Fetal hemoglobin (HbF) and adult Hb (HbA) have different affinity for oxygen. The high level of adult Hb may contribute to exacerbating the oxidative damage responsible for prematurity diseases. The investigators hypothesized that transfusing red blood cells (RBC) obtained from allogeneic cord blood (CB) of healthy full-term babies (which contains almost exclusively HbF) may prevent the non-physiological decrease of HbF in premature neonates, likewise protecting them from oxygen radical diseases. Cord blood transfusion in preterms - CB TRIP - is a monocentric prospective nonrandomized study aimed to monitor HbF levels in preterm neonates receiving RBC transfusions from either umbilical blood of full-term healthy babies (CB-RBC) and/or from adult donors (A-RBC).

This observational study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of a new infant feeding tool called "SMART Tool" in the neonatal intensive care unit. The main questions it aims to answer are: To design a feeding tool to assess oral motor and neurobehavioral skills in neonates To establish psychometrics of the new tool by doing reliability and validity tests.

It has not yet been established the optimal dose of vit. D for preterm infants in Poland. It is not known what dose of vit. D will provide the correct concentration of vit. D and the optimal development of the skeleton of the premature. The study will try to determine the optimal supplementation of vitamin D and the supply of Ca and P for normal growth and development of a child born prematurely. In addition, the investigators will evaluate any risk factors for deficiency and excess of vitamin D and the consequences of its deficiency and overdose. Simultaneously the study would make possible the determination of an optimal schedule for controlling the Ca-P levels in the group of the youngest infants born prematurely. In addition, the study will assess the relationship between maternal and newborn vitamin D resources right after birth, and the incidence of vitamin D deficiency in infants born prematurely. Preterm infants will be randomized in 3 groups assigned to different doses of vit. D. The study will investigate the metabolism of calcium, phosphorus, the health of bones and development of the premature babies till the age of 2.

This study will compare a newborn heart rate sensor (HeartLight) that is integrated into a hat with other common forms of heart rate monitoring such as electrocardiography (ECG), stethoscope and pulse oximetry (PO) in newborn babies. This will help to evaluate the new heart rate sensor's reliability and accuracy.

This is a prospective, observational clinical cohort study involving children born very preterm at less than 31 weeks and six days gestation. The purpose of this study is to investigate the microbiome (the collection of microbes in a biological site) alternations resulting from preterm birth and associations with the risk of immune dysregulation, asthma and allergies.

To compare and analyze the effects on the electromyographic activity of preterm newborns placed in the hammock position with the activity of newborns not placed in this position.