Author:
Ryan Mary Anne J.,Mathieson Sean R.,Livingstone Vicki,O’Sullivan Marc Paul,Dempsey Eugene M.,Boylan Geraldine B.
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Sleep supports neurodevelopment and sleep architecture reflects brain maturation. This prospective observational study describes the nocturnal sleep architecture of healthy moderate to late preterm (MLP) infants in the neonatal unit at 36 weeks post menstrual age (PMA).
Methods
MLP infants, in the neonatal unit of a tertiary hospital in Ireland from 2017 to 2018, had overnight continuous electroencephalography (cEEG) with video for a minimum 12 h at 36 weeks PMA. The total sleep time (TST) including periods of active sleep (AS), quiet sleep (QS), indeterminate sleep (IS), wakefulness and feeding were identified, annotated and quantified.
Results
A total of 98 infants had cEEG with video monitoring suitable for analysis. The median (IQR) of TST in the 12 h period was 7.09 h (IQR 6.61–7.76 h), 4.58 h (3.69–5.09 h) in AS, 2.02 h (1.76–2.36 h) in QS and 0.65 h (0.48–0.89 h) in IS. The total duration of AS was significantly lower in infants born at lower GA (p = 0.007) whilst the duration of individual QS periods was significantly higher (p = 0.001).
Conclusion
Overnight cEEG with video at 36 weeks PMA showed that sleep state architecture is dependent on birth GA. Infants with a lower birth GA have less AS and more QS that may have implications for later neurodevelopment.
Impact
EEG provides objective information about the sleep organisation of the moderate to late preterm (MLP) infant.
Quantitative changes in sleep states occur with each week of advancing gestational age (GA).
Active sleep (AS) is the dominant sleep state that was significantly lower in infants born at lower GA.
MLP infants who were exclusively fed orally had a shorter total sleep time and less AS compared to infants who were fed via nasogastric tube.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
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