G198(P) Gut and cerebral oxygenation in preterm infants over the first 8 weeks of life: what is normal?

Aims To establish currently lacking norms of gut and cerebral oxygenation for preterm infants born at Methods Weekly cerebral and splanchnic Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) measurements were recorded in 48 infants Results Median birthweight was 884 g (460–1600 g), median gestational age was 26+3 weeks (23+0–29+6) and 52% female. Data was excluded from five infants who developed Haemorrhagic Parenchymal Infarcts (HPI) and seven with Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC). Weekly mean cTOI, sTOI, SCOR, cFTOE and sFTOE are presented in table 1. Across all 8 weeks of life cTOI was greater than sTOI (p Conclusion This is the first report of normative data on splanchnic oxygenation over the first 8 weeks of life in preterm infants