The Early Feeding Skills Assessment for Preterm Infants
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The early feeding skills assessment for preterm infants.
Preterm infants develop the skills necessary to begin oral feeding as their health stabilizes and as they reach a postconceptional age that supports coordination of breathing and swallowing with oral-motor functioning. The time from initiation of oral feeding to full oral feedings (with adequate intake for growth and maintenance of physiologic stability) can vary from days to months for the pre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neonatal Network
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0730-0832,1539-2880
DOI: 10.1891/0730-0832.24.3.7