• Acta paediatrica · Jan 2012

    Time of initiation of skin-to-skin contact in extremely preterm infants in Sweden.

    • Evalotte Mörelius, Charlotte Angelhoff, Jennie Eriksson, and Elisabeth Olhager.
    • Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Faculty of Health Science, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden. evalotte.morelius@liu.se
    • Acta Paediatr. 2012 Jan 1; 101 (1): 14-8.

    AimTo describe the time of first skin-to-skin contact in extremely preterm infants in a national perspective and to investigate possible factors affecting the time of first skin-to-skin contact.MethodsA population-based prospective descriptive study of extremely preterm infants (n = 520) in seven regional hospitals in Sweden.ResultsExtremely preterm infants in Sweden experience first skin-to-skin contact with the parent at a median of six postnatal days (range 0-44). Low gestational age, a high score on the clinical risk index for babies, and the number of days on a ventilator tended to delay first skin-to-skin contact. A statistically significant difference was also found between regional hospitals.ConclusionThere is a difference in the time of first skin-to-skin contact based on the infant's medical condition and the tradition in the neonatal intensive care unit at the regional hospital where the infant is born.© 2011 The Author(s)/Acta Paediatrica © 2011 Foundation Acta Paediatrica.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…