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

Table 4

SPO2 at different time points for all the feeding methods.

	SPO2	Before	After	5 min	10 min	15 min	30 min	1 h	2 h	3 h
BF	Mean	97.47	98.47	95.52	96.42	97.25	97.04	96.62	97.66	97.62
	SD	1.48	1.08	3.68	2.41	2.11	1.91	2.37	1.54	1.36
	value		<0.001	<0.001	0.009	0.206	0.616	0.084	0.584	0.307
SF	Mean	98.46	98.59	95.56	96.83	97.13	97.56	97.57	97.73	97.86
	SD	1.08	1.01	2.66	2.03	1.93	1.8	1.98	1.73	1.33
	value		0.357	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.001	0.002	0.001
GF	Mean	97.43	96	97.64	97.66	97.54	97.41	97.8	97.32	97.84
	SD	2.13	1.96	1.97	2.11	2.38	2.22	1.94	2.5	1.93
	value		0.53	0.438	0.401	0.707	0.946	0.223	0.708	0.1
BS	Mean	97.88	97.3	97.18	97.15	97.37	97.64	97.83	98.01	98.26
	SD	1.99	2.16	2.29	2.64	2.4	2.55	2.33	1.84	1.63
	value		0.093	0.043	0.136	0.245	0.485	1	0.274	0.062
BG	Mean	98.16	98.63	95.41	97.19	97.94	97.84	98.16	98.13	98.47
	SD	1.42	0.838	3.02	1.87	1.85	1.85	1.29	1.41	1.2
	value		0.129	<0.001	0.03	0.629	0.542	0.926	0.724	0.455
SG	Mean	97.77	98.06	96.37	96.57	97.51	97.57	97.46	97.54	97.8
	SD	1.73	1.67	2.34	2.23	2.02	1.85	2	1.65	1.65
	value		0.373	0.009	0.011	0.516	0.56	0.4	0.521	0.922
BSG	Mean	97.28	96.92	95.78	96.53	96.44	96.97	97.53	97.56	97.31
	SD	1.42	1.81	2.23	2.23	1.85	1.69	1.44	1.73	1.21
	value		0.181	0.004	0.119	0.058	0.419	0.469	0.469	0.922