Mobile applications for newborn respiratory care, narrative review

Abstract

Respiratory care of the newborn is one of the most important activities for his adaptation, since the baby must adjust his breathing when moving from the liquid medium to the environment, where his respiratory effort will be decisive in guaranteeing the functional passage from intrauterine life to extrauterine. In the neonatal period, detection of respiratory warning signs by parents is important, and communication technologies are one of the tools to bring information in real time to caregivers. This article describes a narrative literature review to identify mobile applications on newborn respiratory care, in which MeSH terms were used: infant newborn, childcare, respiratory therapy, telemedicine, eHealth, caregivers and their corresponding DeCS (Spanish and Portuguese). A search protocol in subscribed and free databases was established, that included filters of completeness and quality of the articles. 488 articles were found, to which inclusion and quality criteria were applied, leaving 19 complete articles for reading and analysis. Despite the increasing design of health applications, in the area of neonatal respiratory care, no applications were found that were designed for this purpose and.