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Angela Ekwonye, PhD, CPH
Presentation
A Systematic Review of Methods to Reduce the Incidence of Bronchopulmonary Dsyplasia.
Annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (2017)
  • N'Keyah Diaz, Franklin Pierce University
  • Angela Ekwonye, St. Catherine University
Abstract
BACKGROUND  
Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) is a disease that affects 10,000 infants a year in the US alone. It mainly affects preterm infants and extremely low weight infants. High pressure ventilation and excessive supplementary oxygen has been found to delay and even disrupt the development of the lungs in preterm infants and extremely low weight babies leading to life long morbidity. Many studies have been done on different methods to possibly prevent the disease, but none have determined the best treatment. This review seeks to find the best prevention methods to reduce the incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants.  
METHODS  
Search words such as bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, preterm, prenatal, perinatal and infants, were entered into the following databases: PubMed Central, PubMed Health, EBSCO and Medline Complete. A total of 25 articles were generated. Three systematic review articles were excluded and 22 articles were used for this review.  
RESULTS 
Alteration of clinical factors such as intubation time, positive airway pressure use, and the use of steroids could reduce the incidence of BPD in premature infants by reducing the strain on their lungs.  
CONCLUSION  
The incidence of BPD, especially in preterm infants, can be reduced and prevented with the altering of clinical factors. These prevention methods, if practiced at institutions that care for preterm and low birth weight infants, could save lives and prevent lifelong illness. 
Keywords
  • Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia,
  • Prenatal,
  • perinatal,
  • infants,
  • preterm
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall November, 2017
Location
Atlanta, GA
Citation Information
N'Keyah Diaz and Angela Ekwonye. "A Systematic Review of Methods to Reduce the Incidence of Bronchopulmonary Dsyplasia." Annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (2017)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/angela-ekwonye/8/