This work aims to present a quantitative metric to assess the impact of feeding teats on the nutritive sucking of newborns. Two different teat models are compared: a classical model (model C), and a model provided with two opposite recesses to match the anatomical characteristics of the mouth of a newborn (model I). This latter feeding teat model has been specifically designed to promote the attachment of the baby, thus improving her/his nutritive sucking performance.Feeding teats are instrumented with a device to assess nutritive sucking (the Feeding Assessment Monitor, FAM). The device records feeding pressures and a software extracts quantitative features already used and validated in clinical applications.Comparative cross-over analysis on 30 healthy newborns, demonstrates the appropriateness of the proposed metric to reveal differences in the teat models. In particular, our data confirm the better attachment of newborns when fed with the I model: they show a longer feeding, with higher level of depressurization, higher regularity, and higher number of sucking events.
Assessment of feeding teats: An experimental study / Chericoni, A.; Tosi, J.; Visco, A. M.; Lubrano, R.; Taffoni, F.. - 2019:(2019), pp. 3726-3729. (Intervento presentato al convegno 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2019 tenutosi a deu) [10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857796].
Assessment of feeding teats: An experimental study
Lubrano R.;
2019
Abstract
This work aims to present a quantitative metric to assess the impact of feeding teats on the nutritive sucking of newborns. Two different teat models are compared: a classical model (model C), and a model provided with two opposite recesses to match the anatomical characteristics of the mouth of a newborn (model I). This latter feeding teat model has been specifically designed to promote the attachment of the baby, thus improving her/his nutritive sucking performance.Feeding teats are instrumented with a device to assess nutritive sucking (the Feeding Assessment Monitor, FAM). The device records feeding pressures and a software extracts quantitative features already used and validated in clinical applications.Comparative cross-over analysis on 30 healthy newborns, demonstrates the appropriateness of the proposed metric to reveal differences in the teat models. In particular, our data confirm the better attachment of newborns when fed with the I model: they show a longer feeding, with higher level of depressurization, higher regularity, and higher number of sucking events.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
