Summary
HOT OFF THE PRESS: We have just seen the publication in JAMA of the AIROPLANE trial from Australia that compared air (21%) to 30% oxygen as the initial oxygen for this understudied population. So...
Do we finally have evidence to help choose a starting oxygen level for the stabilisation of moderate - late preterm infants in the delivery room?
We think we should use air (21%) for term infants in the delivery room, 30% for very preterm infants, and probably 60% for extremely preterm infants, but there has been very little evidence to guide what initial oxygen we should use for the MOST COMMON preterm infants: those born moderate-late preterm at 32-35 weeks' gestation.
Led by Dr Stacey Peart and A/Prof Louise Owen (Melbourne), the AIROPLANE trial enrolled over 1800 moderate-late preterm infants across 26 Australian hospitals, including both non-tertiary and tertiary centres. Check out the papers below.
The AIROPLANE trial also has some interesting features we will discuss:
1. A randomised, cluster crossover design
2. The use of a QR code for real-time data entry
3. A waiver of consent
Join us as:
📄 Co-host Shiraz Badurdeen reviews the paper
🎤 Patrick Walker interviews the first and senior authors Stacey Peart and Louise Owen
And then Ju Lee Oei (herself the lead investigator of the TORPIDO 30/60 oxygen trial), Shiraz and I will be joined for a live panel by 3 of the world's neonatal resuscitation and delivery room oxygen legends...
- 🌏 Professor Peter Davis (Australia)
- 🌎 Professor Max Vento (Spain)
- 🌍 Professor Ola Didrik Saugstad (Norway)
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