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Title: H6 - The OWL's Have It: “Oxygen with Love” May Be the Answer to Decreasing Retinopathy of Prematurity
Disciplines: Childbearing (CB), Advanced Practice (AP)
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the potential harm that supplemental oxygen can induce.
- Identify steps to maintain gestational age specific pulse oximetry target ranges focusing on infants less than 35 weeks gestation; infants 35-36 weeks; and infants 37 weeks or greater.
- List steps to address high and low pulse oximetry alarms that provide optimal infant outcomes.
Oxygen targeting is not a new idea, but bedside nurses struggle with it on a day to day basis. At this facility, an opportunity was identified to improve upon clinical care to positively impact those infants at risk of developing stage 3 or worse retinopathy of prematurity (severe ROP). Expert opinion tells us that ROP can be decreased by keeping oxygen satuations within certain parameters and that this is best achieved with pulse oximetry alarms being set. However, this is not consistently done. Small changes in clinical practice can yield dramatic results in a decrease in severe ROP.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010: 10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Venetian
Moderator:
Jennifer M. Bliven, RNC-OB, BSN, CCE, CIME
Presenting Authors:
Jodi Behr, MSN, RNC-NIC, JD
and
Lucynthia Leigh Young, RN, BSN, RNC-NIC
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