Research Article
The Effect of Arterial pH on Oxygenation Persists Even in Infants Treated with Inhaled Nitric Oxide
Table 1
Demographic data for study patients according to pH responsive status.
| | Responders ; (60.7%) | Non-responders (39.2%) |
| Mean birth weight | 3343 gm (2040–5178) | 3257 gm (2670–4200) | Mean gestational age | 39 wk (36.14–41.86) | 38.45 wk (35.14–41.71) | Males : females | 17 : 12 | 16 : 6 |
| Primary diagnosis | | | Meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) | 12 (39%) | 13 (65%) | Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) | 1 (3%) | 2 (10%) | Pneumonia | 4 (13%) | 1 (5%) | Asphyxia | 1 (3%) | 2 (10%) | Blood aspiration | 2 (6%) | 0 | Sepsis | 5 (16%) | 4 (20%) | Cardiomyopathy | 1 (3%) | 0 | Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) | 3 (10%) | 0 | Mean age at iNO initiation | 23.2 hours | 25.1 hours |
| ECMO | 3 (10%) | 8 (40%) | No ECMO | 28 (90%) | 12 (60%) | Survival to discharge | 31 (100%) | 19 (95%) |
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