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Technological Solutions and Main Indices for the Assessment of Newborns’ Nutritive Sucking: A Review

Sensors, 2014
Nutritive Sucking (NS) is a highly organized process that is essential for infants’ feeding during the first six months of their life. It requires the complex coordination of sucking, swallowing and breathing. The infant’s inability to perform a safe and
Eleonora Tamilia, Fabrizio Taffoni, Domenico Formica, Luca Ricci, Emiliano Schena, Flavio Keller, Eugenio Guglielmelli   +6 more
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Using non-nutritive sucking to support feeding development for premature infants: A commentary on approaches and current practice

Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, 2018
Non-nutritive sucking is often used with premature infants by either using a pacifier or an expressed breast nipple to support the introduction and development of early oral feeding.
C. Harding, H. Cockerill, C. Cane, J. Law   +3 more
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The effect of oral motor intervention with different initiation times to improve feeding outcomes in preterm infants: protocol for a single-blind, randomized controlled trial

Trials
Background Premature infants commonly encounter difficulties with oral feeding, a complication that extends hospital stays, affects infants’ quality of life, and imposes substantial burdens on families and society. Enhancing preterm infants’ oral feeding
Yingxin Li, Yanlin Hu, Yuan Li, Xia Li, Xi Huang, Zeyao Shi, Ru Yang, Xiujuan Zhang, Qiong Chen   +8 more
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Build Independent Self-feeding Function: A Pilot Study on a Child with Autism and Feeding Disorder

, 2021
The high occurrence of feeding disorders among children with autism spectrum disorder has caught the attention of professionals from different disciplines.
Yi Yang, Jonathan Tarbox, Megan Aclan, Hongen Ma   +3 more
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Biopsychosocial Factors in Children Referred With Failure to Thrive: Modern Characterization for Multidisciplinary Care

Global Pediatric Health, 2019
The objective of this study was to characterize biopsychosocial characteristics in children with failure to thrive with a focus on 4 domains: medical, nutrition, feeding skills, and psychosocial characteristics.
Nina Mazze MD, JD, HBSc, Emma Cory MD, Julie Gardner RN, Mara Alexanian-Farr MSc, RD, Carly Mutch OT, Sherna Marcus OT, Julie Johnstone MD, MScCH, Meta van den Heuvel MD, PhD   +7 more
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Development of a Rapid Salivary Proteomic Platform for Oral Feeding Readiness in the Preterm Newborn

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2017
Oral feeding competency is a major determinant of length of stay in the neonatal intensive care unit. An infant must be able to consistently demonstrate the ability to take all required enteral nutrition by mouth before discharge home.
Prarthana Khanna, Jill L. Maron, David R. Walt   +2 more
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What is the Effectiveness of Oral Sensorimotor Stimulation on Improving the Oral Feeding Skills of Premature Neonates in the NICU?

, 2023
BACKGROUND: Premature birth affects 1 of every 10 infants born in the United States and contributes to 16% of infant deaths. Infants born prematurely are prone to a number of conditions affecting their health and development, with their stay in the NICU ...
Webb, Missy, Logan, Garrett, Gaynor, Hope   +2 more
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A Review of Assessment Tools for Oral Feeding in Term and Preterm Infants

Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2019
Background and purpose: Problems in oral feeding are common in infants, especially in preterm infants. Therefore, assessment of infants feeding could be of great help in making appropriate diagnosis for rehabilitation of swallowing.
Maryam Sadat Tabatabaei, Faride Kamran, Shohre Jalaei   +2 more
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Assessment and Rehabilitation of Oral Feeding Difficulties in Preterm Infants

康复学报, 2023
The immaturity of the sucking reflex and swallowing reflex in preterm infants, and the incoordination of suck-swallow-breath (SSWB) patterns lead to feeding problems, such as cough, aspiration, feeding difficulties etc. Therefore, standardized assessment
GUAN Hanyue, CHEN Ling, HUANG Jinyu, TANG Xinqun, LIU Caiwei, ZHU Ruqiao, ZENG Qing   +6 more
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The management of feeding difficulties in children with cerebral palsy in Bangladesh [PDF]

, 2009
The majority of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) have feeding difficulties, which result in chronic malnutrition and respiratory disease, reducing quality of life for caregiver and child, and causing early child mortality. In well-resourced countries,
Adams, M.S.
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