scholarly journals Clinician Perspectives on Barriers to and Opportunities for Skin-to-Skin Contact for Premature Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Chong Lee ◽  
Sarah Martin-Anderson ◽  
R. Adams Dudley
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Premature Infants ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Skin Contact ◽  
Clinician Perspectives ◽  
Skin To Skin

Drug Utilization in Very Premature Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

1991 ◽  
Vol 17 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 167-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Gortner ◽  
U. Bernsau ◽  
M. Brand ◽  
H.H. Hellwege ◽  
G. Hieronimie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Drug Utilization ◽  
Premature Infants ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Very Premature Infants

Holding the Very Low Birth Weight Infant: Skin-to-Skin Techniques

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Kledzik
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Preterm Infants ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Very Low Birth Weight ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Low Birth Weight Infant ◽  
Skin To Skin

Skin-to-skin holding has been reported as a valuable intervention for preterm infants for over a decade. However, many neonatal intensive care units are not practicing this therapy and cite lack of protocols and techniques as a barrier. This article describes in detail the nursing considerations and techniques involved to successfully implement skin-to-skin holding for very low birth weight, technology-dependent infants. NICU protocols can be derived from this article.

Kangaroo Baby Care: Just a Nice Experience or an Important Advance for Preterm Infants?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 604-605
Author(s):  
ANDREW WHITELAW
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Preterm Infant ◽  
Preterm Infants ◽  
Premature Infants ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Important Advance ◽  
Skin Contact ◽  
Skin To Skin

"Kangaroo baby care" or "skin-to-skin contact" describes the practice of holding a preterm infant naked (except for a diaper) between the mother's breasts. The baby's face pokes out of the top of the mother's dress like a baby kangaroo's. Rey and Martinez in Bogota, Colombia1 pioneered the home care of premature infants as small as 1000 g, the mother being taught to hold her baby head-up kangaroo-style to encourage lactation, prevent aspiration, and reduce rejection. Education and motivation of the mother in the care of preterm infants makes obvious sense in the developing world, but kangaroo baby care has also been applied in many developed countries in conjunction with neonatal intensive care rather than as a replacement for incubators and monitors.2-4

scholarly journals Music in premature infants enhances high-level cognitive brain networks

2019 ◽  
pp. 201817536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Lordier ◽  
Djalel-Eddine Meskaldji ◽  
Frédéric Grouiller ◽  
Marie P. Pittet ◽  
Andreas Vollenweider ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Premature Infants ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Environmental Enrichment ◽  
Brain Networks ◽  
Full Term ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Salience Network ◽  
Term Newborns

Neonatal intensive care units are willing to apply environmental enrichment via music for preterm newborns. However, no evidence of an effect of music on preterm brain development has been reported to date. Using resting-state fMRI, we characterized a circuitry of interest consisting of three network modules interconnected by the salience network that displays reduced network coupling in preterm compared with full-term newborns. Interestingly, preterm infants exposed to music in the neonatal intensive care units have significantly increased coupling between brain networks previously shown to be decreased in premature infants: the salience network with the superior frontal, auditory, and sensorimotor networks, and the salience network with the thalamus and precuneus networks. Therefore, music exposure leads to functional brain architectures that are more similar to those of full-term newborns, providing evidence for a beneficial effect of music on the preterm brain.

Skin-to-skin care in neonatal intensive care units in the Nordic countries: a survey of attitudes and practices

2012 ◽  
Vol 101 (11) ◽  
pp. 1140-1146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Olsson ◽  
Randi D. Andersen ◽  
Anna Axelin ◽  
Rakel B. Jonsdottir ◽  
Ragnhild Maastrup ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Skin Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Skin To Skin
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