Akbarzadeh Saeed, Farhoodi Roozbeh, Lyu Tianchan, Awais Muhammad, Zhao Xian, Abbasi Saadullah Farooq, Chen Wei
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2020 Jul;2020:4282-4285. doi: 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9176146.
One of the challenges in examining development of newborns is measuring activities which are correlated to their health. Oral feeding is the most important factor in an infant's healthy development. Here, we present a new device that can measure intraoral and expression pressures produced in a newborn's mouth by non-nutritive sucking. We then develop a method to extract time-intervals that a sucking has occurred. To show an application of this device, we use Apgar score as a reference of the general health of newborns, and we evaluate these scores with the non-nutritive sucking patterns demonstrated by the infants. We show that for the pairs of infant with the same background but different Apgar scores, those with lower Apgar scores have lower pressure amplitudes while sucking. Importance of non-nutritive sucking skills in the development of newborns and ease of using our device make it useful for clinical studies of infantile health.
研究新生儿发育面临的挑战之一是测量与他们健康相关的活动。经口喂养是婴儿健康发育的最重要因素。在此，我们展示一种新装置，它能够测量新生儿通过非营养性吸吮在口腔内产生的口腔内压力和表情压力。然后，我们开发出一种方法来提取吸吮发生的时间间隔。为了展示该装置的应用，我们将阿氏评分作为新生儿总体健康状况的参考，并根据婴儿表现出的非营养性吸吮模式对这些评分进行评估。我们发现，对于背景相同但阿氏评分不同的婴儿对，阿氏评分较低的婴儿在吸吮时压力幅度较小。非营养性吸吮技能在新生儿发育中的重要性以及我们装置使用的便捷性使其对婴儿健康的临床研究很有用。
