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kangaroo care
Indications:
- preterm infants* [1]
* likely of benefit for all newborns of all mammals
Procedure:
- early & continuous maternal skin-to-skin contact with newborn [1]
Clinical significance:
- 36% decrease in mortality among pre-term newborns
- decrease in neonatal sepsis (47%), hypothermia, hypoglycemia, & hospital readmission
- lesser degree of benefit in full-term infants [1]
General
clinical procedure
References
- Stein MT
Skin-to-Skin Contact Between Mother and Preterm Baby Reduces
Mortality.
Physician's First Watch, Dec 22, 2015
David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief
Massachusetts Medical Society
http://www.jwatch.org
- Boundy EO, Dastjerdi R, Spiegelman D et al
Kangaroo Mother Care and Neonatal Outcomes: A Meta-analysis.
Pediatrics. Jan 2016. EPub 2015 Dec 23
PMID: 26702029
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2015/12/22/peds.2015-2238