Evaluation of Pulse Rate, Oxygen Saturation, and Respiratory Effort after Different Types of Feeding Methods in Preterm Newborns

Table 2

RR at different time points for all the feeding methods.

	RR	Before	After	5 min	10 min	15 min	30 min	1 h	2 h	3 h
BF	Mean	49.84	49.01	58.98	57.96	55.03	52.90	52.35	50.62	49.25
	SD	9.81	9.16	5.08	5.70	5.546	6.74	6.99	9.46	8.97
	value		0.21	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.004	0.269	0.46
SF	Mean	46.76	47.61	57	54.79	52.88	51.58	48.76	48.47	47.14
	SD	9.37	9.92	6.46	6.84	7.55	8.12	8.46	9.33	8.43
	value		0.10	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.004	0.034	0.55
GF	Mean	56.80	56.96	56.78	57.75	58.42	57.89	58.78	57.28	56.78
	SD	9.69	7.72	8.44	7.55	8.20	8.33	8.07	7.56	7.95
	value		0.86	0.98	0.431	0.193	0.426	0.129	0.657	0.98
BS	Mean	53.22	55.37	56.83	56.06	54.49	55.01	55.52	55.13	52.73
	SD	9.54	6.94	7.05	8.70	6.91	6.22	7.20	7.27	6.85
	value		0.003	<0.001	<0.001	0.157	0.061	0.016	0.026	0.578
BG	Mean	46.38	46.51	56.83	54.83	53.93	52	50.96	48.03	46.25
	SD	5.89	7.26	4.97	6.14	6.86	6.23	7.62	6.22	5.813
	value		0.90	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.041	0.852
SG	Mean	47.77	52.45	58.28	55.82	52.11	51.94	52.28	50.74	49.25
	SD	11.11	13.60	10.97	12.58	11.37	10.95	12.29	12.65	10.036
	value		<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.002	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.023
BSG	Mean	49.55	54.27	60.50	60	57.38	55.88	55.27	53.33	52
	SD	7.54	9.26	5.56	5.06	5.73	5.79	6.43	6.08	6.43
	value		<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.028