Astarte Medical and Arkansas Children s Hospital Partner to Better Understand Feeding Milestones and Metrics for NICU Patients
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YARDLEY, Pa., Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Astarte Medical, a health intelligence company, announced today it has signed a contract with Arkansas Children s Hospital to implement its NICUtrition® software platform to analyze and understand feeding metrics and milestones and the corresponding growth outcomes for preterm infants in the neonatal ICU (NICU).
More than 380,000 infants in the U.S. are born preterm annually, surviving as early as 22 weeks gestational age. As survival rates for extremely preterm infants improve, attention is now turning to the quality of survival. Optimal nutrition early in life can positively impact not only physical growth, but neurological development as well. Despite accumulating research and increased knowledge of preterm infant nutritional needs, a lack of resources,