Do nurses help preterm babies to exhale?

[leekm]

Hi I am currently doing a design project. the problem given by the engineering lecturer is preterm babies have respiration difficulties. the machine that helps the babies to breathe, just help them to inhale but not exhale. there are nurses in the nursery who massage the babies stomach to exhale. design a something that can detect the exhalation of the babies.

I read up information on preterm babies. but i couldn't find any information on babies that exhale by the help of nurse. I only found CPAP and other mechanical ventilators.

I would like to know whether the situation given is true? which levels of NICU babies recieve this treatment?

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

There is at least one mode of ventilation -high frequency oscillatory ventilation - that utilizes both active inspiration and expiration. (Active exhalation is necessary in that mode because we're trying to deliver hundreds of tiny pressure oscillations to the baby each minute.)

This is what I was going to say.

[NICUR]

Look up JET ventilation, it provides inspirations through the interior et and allows the expirations to ease up the exterior naturally. Great for MAS and microprems