Mean Blood Pressure (BP) Reference Values with Gestation in Preterm (PT) Infants During the First Week of Life † 1293

Background: There is little other than empiricle data on the reference values for blood pressure of preterm infants and what there is is unrelated to gestation and postnatal age. For 10 years we have monitored intravascular BP on all sick PT infants over the first week of life.

Subjects: 322 PT infants <37 weeks gestation. n= 17 (<26w), 47(26-28w), 177 (29-32w), 81 (33-36w) who were stable enough not to receive inotropic agents and who survived to discharge

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