A New Bottle Design Decreases Hypoxemic Episodes during Feeding in Preterm Infants

Table 2

Oxygen desaturation events, expressed as median and (interquartile range).

	Standard bottle	New bottle design	P ^*
Percentage of feeding time SpO2 <90%	8% (3–13)	5% (2–11)	<0.004
Percentage of feeding time SpO2 90% −94%	13% (6–21)	8% (2–18)	<0.0007
Number of desaturation events per infant	10 (1–19)	4 (1–8)	<0.001
Time with SpO2 <90% (s)	46 s (8.3–150 )	30 s (6–96)	<0.001
Mean SpO2 during feeding	94 (91–96)	96 (93–98)	<0.0008

^*Wilcoxon signed-0 rank test.