作者
Saeed Akbarzadeh, Tianchan Lyu, Roozbeh Farhoodi, Muhammad Awais, Saadullah Farooq Abbasi, Xian Zhao, Chen Chen, Amara Amara, Yasemin Akay, Metin Akay, Wei Chen
发表日期
2022/1/19
期刊
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
卷号
69
期号
7
页码范围
2370-2378
出版商
IEEE
简介
Due to the lack of enough physical or suck central pattern generator (SCPG) development, premature infants require assistance in improving their sucking skills as one of the first coordinated muscular activities in infants. Hence, we need to quantitatively measure their sucking abilities for future studies on their sucking interventions. Here, we present a new device that can measure both intraoral pressure (IP) and expression pressure (EP) as ororhithmic behavior parameters of non-nutritive sucking skills in infants. Our device is low-cost, easy-to-use, and accurate, which makes it appropriate for extensive studies. To showcase one of the applications of our device, we collected weekly data from 137 premature infants from 29 week-old to 36 week-old. Around half of the infants in our study needed intensive care even after they were 36 week-old. We call them full attainment of oral feeding (FAOF) infants. We then used …
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