Pneumogram guidlines.

[dawngloves]

Do you do this on all your preemie discharges? Can the parents hold while the test is going on? What other guidlines have you?

[NebraskaRN]

No sleep studies, we do corificeat "tests" and send babies home on monitors if they have oxygen. We also do the 5-7 day apnea "watch"

[jlb_rn]

Our pneumograms are done mostly on night shift for an 8-16 hour period. We do allow holding by the parents and we feed however the baby is currently feeding (PO, NG, etc) but since night shift involves less patient activity in general, there are still solid blocks of time with very little stimulation. We document any activity (ie. nursing care, feeding) on a flowsheet as well as any "events" (brady, desat, periodic breathing, etc) including the time and the Ph at the moment of the event or activity.