Original ArticleDevelopmental Outcomes of Very Preterm Infants with Tracheostomies
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Methods
The NRN uses a predefined protocol to prospectively collect medical and developmental follow-up data at 18-22 months' corrected age on all infants born with birth weight of 401-1000 g (if born before January 1, 2008) or before 27 weeks' gestation (if born on or after January 1, 2008).13 The same protocol is used to collect follow-up data about children of any gestational age who are enrolled in an NRN clinical trial requiring neurodevelopmental follow-up. In the current analyses, we evaluated
Results
Over the study period (2001-2011), 10 128 children were born before 30 weeks' gestation, survived to at least 36 weeks' postmenstrual age, and were eligible for neonatal follow-up at 18-22 months' corrected age in 16 NRN centers. We excluded 1445 (14%) children because of missing data on the primary outcome, of whom 29 (2.0%) had tracheostomies. The remaining 8683 children included 304 children (3.5%) with tracheostomies (Table I). Infants who underwent tracheostomy had lower average birth
Discussion
This retrospective study of prospectively collected data cannot establish causality but merely suggest plausible associations. However, this cohort is unique in several ways. We evaluated mortality and neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18-22 months' corrected age in children who were born at <30 weeks' gestation and underwent tracheostomy placement. Prior smaller, mostly single-center studies of children with tracheostomies did not include comparison groups without tracheostomies. In contrast, our
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Supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) for the Neonatal Research Network, including for the Generic Database Study, Candidiasis Study, Cord Clamping Study, Delivery Room CPAP Study, Early Blood Pressure pilot study, PCV-7 Study, Phototherapy Trial, Preemie aEEG pilot study, Preemie iNO Trial, and SUPPORT trial. Data collected at participating sites of the NICHD Neonatal Research Network were transmitted to RTI International, the data coordinating center for the network, which stored, managed, and analyzed the data for this study. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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List of members of the NICHD Neonatal Research Network is available at www.jpeds.com (Appendix).