Sam Brusco, Associate Editor08.30.23
Cardinal Health has launched its NTrainer 2.0, a next-gen device to help premature and newborn infants develop oral coordination skills crucial to the transition to independent feeding more quickly, in order to reduce their neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) length of stay.
NTrainer improves non-nutritive suck (NNS), which is needed for safe transition from feeding tubes to the breast or bottle. It’s a development milestone for preterm infants and recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics as criteria for discharge from the NICU.
NTrainer offers objective data to track the infant’s progress in developing the necessary pre-feeding skills.
"The NTrainer System demonstrates Cardinal Health's investment in innovation to help improve patient outcomes and increase caregiver confidence while providing objective data important for delivering consistent patient care," Steve Mason, CEO of Cardinal Health's Medical Segment, told the press. "The NTrainer System will help some of our most vulnerable patients at the beginning of life through the first and only biofeedback device to improve NNS patterns in newborns and infants born prematurely."
The next-gen NTrainer system 2.0, compared to the first generation and according to Cardinal, is smaller, more intuitive, and easier to integrate into feeding protocols, while still offering consistent, repeatable assessment and therapy. It was engineered to support proper suck-swallow-breathe coordination in premature infants, to reduce time to achieve oral feeding.
"We have a real commitment to and pride in our enteral access and nutritional delivery device portfolio. Our Kangaroo brand of products is an industry leader and mainstay, and our investment in the NTrainer System rounds out our offerings in this space," said Kelley Moffett, Senior Vice President, Global Products, Medical Segment, Cardinal Health.
NTrainer improves non-nutritive suck (NNS), which is needed for safe transition from feeding tubes to the breast or bottle. It’s a development milestone for preterm infants and recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics as criteria for discharge from the NICU.
NTrainer offers objective data to track the infant’s progress in developing the necessary pre-feeding skills.
"The NTrainer System demonstrates Cardinal Health's investment in innovation to help improve patient outcomes and increase caregiver confidence while providing objective data important for delivering consistent patient care," Steve Mason, CEO of Cardinal Health's Medical Segment, told the press. "The NTrainer System will help some of our most vulnerable patients at the beginning of life through the first and only biofeedback device to improve NNS patterns in newborns and infants born prematurely."
The next-gen NTrainer system 2.0, compared to the first generation and according to Cardinal, is smaller, more intuitive, and easier to integrate into feeding protocols, while still offering consistent, repeatable assessment and therapy. It was engineered to support proper suck-swallow-breathe coordination in premature infants, to reduce time to achieve oral feeding.
"We have a real commitment to and pride in our enteral access and nutritional delivery device portfolio. Our Kangaroo brand of products is an industry leader and mainstay, and our investment in the NTrainer System rounds out our offerings in this space," said Kelley Moffett, Senior Vice President, Global Products, Medical Segment, Cardinal Health.