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Question 2: Humidified heated high flow nasal cannula versus nasal continuous positive airway pressure for providing respiratory support following extubation in preterm newborns
  1. Hazel Daish1,
  2. Shiraz Badurdeen2
  1. 1 Department of Paediatric, Ealing Hospital, Middlesex, UK
  2. 2 Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Hazel Daish, Paediatric Department, Ealing Hospital, Uxbridge Road, Southall, Middlesex UB1 3HW, UK; hazel.daish{at}doctors.org.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2014-306617

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    Clinical scenario

    On the morning ward round, you review a 27-week gestational age neonate who is ready for extubation following a brief period of mechanical ventilation for respiratory distress syndrome. Your neonatal unit has recently introduced humidified heated high flow nasal cannula (HHHFNC) as a means of providing non-invasive respiratory support. You wonder about the risk of failed extubation compared with standard nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP). The medical student on the ward round also asks you whether there would be any difference in the risk of the baby developing bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) between these two modes of respiratory support.

    Structured clinical question

    In a preterm neonate who is ready for extubation following a period of mechanical ventilation, is HHHFNC inferior to nCPAP for the respiratory outcomes of extubation failure and BPD?

    Search

    Randomised trials reporting the incidence of extubation failure or BPD in preterm neonates extubated to HHHFNC compared with nCPAP were to be included.

    Secondary sources

    Searching the Cochrane library with the terms ‘newborn high flow nasal’ returned three results, one of which was relevant.1 Using the terms ‘infant high flow nasal’ returned six results with no further relevant articles. From the single relevant Cochrane review identified, one randomised controlled trial (RCT) was reviewed in full …

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    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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