Email Newsletters. By Karen Price. Dan Fisher has led the Pitt women's volleyball team to a 44-20 record in his two seasons as coach, and beginning Thursday, he will try to lead the USA to a gold medal in the Pan American Games in Toronto.
Reflex/confirmation testing not performed. Meconium or umbilical cord tissue are preferred over urine for testing of infants Urine testing indicates drug use over the previous 1â10 days, depending on the drug. Meconium may be contaminated by urine; umbilical cord tissue may be contaminated by maternal blood.
This study will also investigate whether caffeine administration to preterm neonates (<32 weeks' gestation) increases cardiac output. A total of 88 infants will be included in this study, randomized to two study arms. One arm will receive intravenous caffeine citrate within 2 hours of life and placebo (normal saline) at 12 hours of life, and the other arm will receive placebo within 2 hours of life and caffeine citrate at 12 hours of life.