Electrical Grounding Improves Vagal Tone in Preterm Infants | Zendy

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Electrical Grounding Improves Vagal Tone in Preterm Infants

Author(s) -

Rohit Passi,

Kim K. Doheny,

Yuri Gordin,

Hans Hinssen,

Charles Palmer

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

neonatology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.399

H-Index - 84

eISSN - 1661-7819

pISSN - 1661-7800

DOI - 10.1159/000475744

Subject(s) - heart rate variability , neonatal intensive care unit , medicine , ground , vagal tone , anesthesia , heart rate , physics , pediatrics , blood pressure , quantum mechanics

Low vagal tone (VT) is a marker of vulnerability to stress and the risk of developing necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants. Electric fields produced by equipment in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) induce an electric potential measurable on the skin in reference to ground. An electrical connection to ground reduces the skin potential and improves VT in adults.

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