Paper Info
Title
A new ecological method for the estimation of Nutritive Sucking Efficiency in newborns: measurement principle and experimental assessment.
Abstract
The Sucking Efficiency (SEF) is one of the main parameters used to monitor and assess the sucking pattern development in infants. Since Nutritive Sucking (NS) is one of the earliest motor activity performed by infants, its objective monitoring may allow to assess neurological and motor development of newborns. This work proposes a new ecological and low-cost method for SEF monitoring, specifically designed for feeding bottles. The methodology, based on the measure of the hydrostatic pressure exerted by the liquid at the teat base, is presented and experimentally validated at different operative conditions. Results show how the proposed method allows to estimate the minimum volume an infant ingests during a burst of sucks with a relative error within the range of [3-7]% depending on the inclination of the liquid reservoir
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/EMBC.2013.6611098
EMBC
Keywords
Field
DocType
motor development assessment,feeding bottle,infant ingestion,paediatrics,bioelectric potentials,hydrostatic pressure measurement,motor activity monitoring,ecological method,neurophysiology,biomedical measurement,neurological development assessment,sef monitoring,sucking pattern development,newborn,hydrostatics,liquid reservoir inclination,pressure measurement,nutritive sucking efficiency estimation,ecology,child development,pediatrics,uncertainty,reservoirs
Ecology,Motor activity,Computer science,Measuring principle,Hydrostatic pressure
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2013
1557-170X
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.61
1
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
E Tamilia1154.66
Fabrizio Taffoni25813.31
Schena E3489.99
Domenico Formica48826.60
Luca Ricci5142.56
Eugenio Guglielmelli635067.40