August 31, 2023- Cardinal Health announced the launch of its next generation NTrainer™ System 2.0, a medical device designed to help premature and newborn infants develop the oral coordination skills important for the transition to independent feeding faster, thus helping to reduce their neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) length of stay.
Through real-time assessment technology, the NTrainer™ System provides clinicians with the objective data they need to track the progress of an infant in developing pre-feeding skills, while providing parents confidence in their infants’ progress and potential to thrive after discharge.
The NTrainer™ System improves crucial key pre-feeding skills in newborns and preterm infants known as non-nutritive suck (NNS). NNS is critical for the safe transition from feeding tubes to breast or bottle — a developmental milestone for preterm infants and recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics as criteria for discharge from the NICU.