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Electrical Grounding Improves Vagal Tone in Preterm Infants (Could reduce risk of necrotizing enterocolitis)

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https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/475744
Neonatology 2017;112:187-192

https://doi.org/10.1159/000475744 [h=1]Electrical Grounding Improves Vagal Tone in Preterm Infants[/h] Passi R.[SUP]a[/SUP] ? Doheny K.K.[SUP]a[/SUP] ? Gordin Y.[SUP]b[/SUP] ? Hinssen H.[SUP]c[/SUP] ? Palmer C.[SUP]a[/SUP] Author affiliations
[SUP]a[/SUP]Division of Newborn Medicine, PennState Health Children's Hospital, and [SUP]b[/SUP]College of Medicine and [SUP]c[/SUP]Department of Clinical Engineering, College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, USA



[h=2]Abstract[/h] Background: Low vagal tone (VT) is a marker of vulnerability to stress and the risk of developing necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants. Electric fields produced by equipment in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) induce an electric potential measurable on the skin in reference to ground...
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