OBJECTIVE: Coordinating sucking, swallowing and breathing to achieve effective sucking is a complex process and even though sucking is essential for nutrition, little is known about sucking patterns after birth. Our objective was to study sucking patterns in healthy fullterm infants and to describe the …

OBJECTIVES: Sucking problems in preterm infants can be specified by means of visual observation. The Neonatal Oral-Motor Assessment Scale (NOMAS) is the visual observation method most commonly used to assess the non-nutritive sucking (NNS) and nutritive sucking (NS) skills of infants up to approximately …

Op de couveuseafdeling van het Catharina ziekenhuis te Eindhoven wordt gewerkt met de Babylog 8000SC om ademhalingsondersteuning bij zuigelingen toe te passen. Deze apparatuur is verouderd en men wil nieuwe apparatuur aanschaffen. Er heerst op de afdeling echter een kennistekort over welke apparatuur …