title: Special Premie Oxygen Targeting (SPOT): a program to decrease the incidence of blindness in infants with retinopathy of prematurity.
abstract: Infants born prematurely have a plethora of medical problems. Some have cerebral palsy, resulting in limited mobility, while others require oxygen, hearing aids, and/or glasses for medical problems. Most of these could have been prevented if preterm birth was avoided, but efforts to curb this have been slow. This article discusses how blindness can be prevented in infants born prematurely by accepting lower oxygen saturations when on oxygen in the intensive care nursery.
authors.affiliation: Brenner Children's Hospital & Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA. kcoe@wfubmc.edu
authors.forename: Kristi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Coe
authors.forename: Mandy
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Butler
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Reavis
authors.forename: Mary Ellen
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Klinepeter
authors.forename: Connie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Purkey
authors.forename: Tonya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Oliver
authors.forename: Alisa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Starbuck
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Griffin
authors.forename: Cathy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wilmoth
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Block
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003663:Decision Trees; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015931:Intensive Care, Neonatal / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000451:nursing; D017283:Neonatal Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D009657:North Carolina / Q000453:epidemiology; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing*; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012178:Retinopathy of Prematurity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012307:Risk Factors; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D015300:Ventilator Weaning / Q000451:nursing