Auditing of Monitoring and Respiratory Support Equipment in a Level III-C Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Table 4

Rates for appropriate overall use and variable with lower rates of appropriate programming of the different pieces of equipment in relation to patient characteristics and location in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. NICU: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; SpO₂: oxygen saturation; MAP: mean airway pressure; CPAP: continuous positive airway pressure.

Technological resources ( assessments)	Birth weight (g); ( assessments)			Gestational age (weeks); ( assessments)			Sex ( assessments)			Location ( assessments)
	<1500	≥1500		<32	≥32		Male	Female		NICU-A	NICU-B + C
Pulse oximeter ( 94)
% appropriate overall use ()	66 (33)	55.81 (24)	0.31	64.29 (36)	57.89 (22)	0.53	60.47 (26)	62.75 (32)	0.82	57.78 (26)	65.31 (32)	0.45
Multimeasurement monitor ( 104)
% appropriate overall use ()	24 (12)	18.52 (10)	0.49	26.32 (15)	14.89 (7)	0.15	26.53 (13)	16.36 (9)	0.20	18.33 (11)	25 (11)	0.41
Conventional mechanical ventilator ( 53)
% appropriate overall use ()	0.09 (2)	13.79 (4)	0.60	10 (3)	13.64 (3)	0.68	10 (3)	13.04 (3)	0.72	13.89 (5)	5.88 (1)	0.39
High-frequency oscillatory ventilator ( 64)
% appropriate overall use ()	32.5 (13)	45.83 (11)	0.28	31.82 (14)	50 (10)	0.16	32.43 (12)	44.44 (12)	0.32	54.17 (13)	27.5 (11)	0.03
CPAP ( 68)
% appropriate overall use ()	28.89 (13)	27.27 (6)	0.89	29.63 (16)	21.43 (3)	0.54	22.86 (8)	33.33 (11)	0.33	22.73 (5)	30.43 (14)	0.50
Technology as a whole (383)
% appropriate overall use ()	35.27 (73)	31.98 (55)	0.50	34.85 (84)	31.91 (45)	0.55	31.96 (62)	35.45 (67)	0.46	32.09 (60)	35.20 (69)	0.51