

They found that eight of the remaining items were “independently associated with receipt of pharmacologic therapy.” The median time to treatment from birth was 3 days.ĭevlin and colleagues combined two tremor items from the FNAST tool and removed three items - convulsions, high-pitched cry and hyperactive Moro reflex - from further analysis because they were either not observed or had “extremely different frequencies” in the cohorts. Among 424 neonates included in the primary analysis, 238 were treated. Neonates had opioid exposure at a gestational age of at least 36 weeks. They validated their model using an external cohort of neonates enrolled in the Maternal Opioid Treatment: Human Experimental Research (MOTHER). “It is important to prospectively validate this scale, which could be widely used and lead to the standardization of the clinical approach and management of neonates prenatally exposed to opioids.”įor the study, Devlin and colleagues retrospectively reviewed medical records of neonates with antenatal opioid exposure using three cohorts from University of Louisville, the University of Kentucky and Tufts University. Devlin, DO, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote in JAMA Network Open. “This shorter assessment tool could simplify clinical assessment by focusing on components that are relatively consistent across sites,” Lori A.

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