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Promoting Full Oral Feeding in Preterm Infants Less Than 30 Weeks Gestational Age

NCT04277806 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2020-10-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators plan to use a new process to shorten the time of attaining full oral feeding in preterm infants less than 30 weeks gestational age.

Conditions

  • Preterm Infants

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

New Oral feeding process

From the beginning of 32 weeks, try oral feeding once a day, suck pacifier for 10 minutes before feeding. When she/he can finish 50% of the amount of one meal in consecutive two days, and there is no adverse events happened, then we will try oral feeding twice a day. In the same way, in the oral feeding she/he can finish 50% of this meal in consecutive two days, there is no adverse events happened, then we will try three oral feedings three times a day. We wil continue the process until the infant can be fully oral fed by herself/himself.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Children's Hospital of Fudan University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Hour
Max Age
28 Days
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-02-15
Primary Completion
2020-08-15
Completion
2020-09-30

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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