Early human development
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Early human development · Oct 2015
The effect of caffeine citrate on neural breathing pattern in preterm infants.
Caffeine citrate is widely used to prevent and treat prematurity-associated apnea. ⋯ Edi signal can be reliably measured and processed to study changes in premature infants' neural breathing. The beneficial effect of caffeine citrate on the reduction of the number of apnea is mediated through stimulated neural breathing increasing the diaphragm energy expenditure.