THE EFFECT OF PRONE POSITION TO OXYGEN ATURATIONS’LEVEL AND RESPIRATORY RATE AMONG INFANTS WHO BEING INSTALLED MECHANICAL VENTILATION IN NICU KOJA HOSPITAL

Abstract

Mechanical ventilation is used toward newborn that has respiratory disorder in Neonatal intensive Care Unit (NICU). One of therapeutic intervention in order to level up the oxygen’s saturation and respiration rate is change the position into prone. This approach is believes as the most effective way to improve lung complaint. The purpose of this study was to identify the effectiveness of prone position to increase the newborns’ oxygen saturation and respiration rate that being installed by mechanical ventilations. A Quantitative Experiment with Control Group Comparison Design was applied to 16 newborns in Koja Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia. While the intervention group’s oxygen level and respiration rate being observed in prone position, those in control group were observed in supine position. The findings showed significant difference oxygen saturation with p-Value 0.032 (p>  ) for intervention group. In contrast, in term of respiration rate, there was no significant frequency differencebetween both groups with p-Value 0.34 (p>  ). To be concluded, prone position can be applied to improves oxygen saturation toward newborns that being installed by mechanic ventilator.