scholarly journals Disparities in Kangaroo Care for Premature Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

2021 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith Brignoni-Pérez ◽  
Melissa Scala ◽  
Heidi M. Feldman ◽  
Virginia A. Marchman ◽  
Katherine E. Travis
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Jenn Gonya ◽  
Jessica Niski ◽  
Nicole Cistone

The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is, inherently, a trauma environment for the extremely premature infant. This trauma is often exacerbated by nurse caregiving practices that can be modified and still remain effective. Our study explored how behavior analytics could be used to implement an intervention known as Care by Cues and how the intervention might, ultimately, impact infant physiologic stability.


2009 ◽  
Vol 117 (4) ◽  
pp. 639-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia M. Calafat ◽  
Jennifer Weuve ◽  
Xiaoyun Ye ◽  
Lily T. Jia ◽  
Howard Hu ◽  
...  

Neonatology ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 249-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svein Erik Aasen ◽  
Anders Johnsson ◽  
Dag Bratlid ◽  
Terje Christensen

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 685
Author(s):  
Karla Camila Lima de Souza ◽  
ANNY Caroline Ferreira de Carvalho ◽  
Natália Maria Chagas Evangelista ◽  
Magnely Moura do Nascimento ◽  
Andrea Stopiglia Guedes Braide ◽  
...  

Background: Describe the profile of newborns discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) sent to a kangaroo ward and their neonatal variables.Methods: Retrospective and documentary study with a quantitative approach, performed at the General Hospital César Cals, whose sample consisted of 30 charts. The following variables were analyzed: weight, gestational age, Apgar score, gender, race, adequacy of the pregnancy and assistance provided in the NICU and kangaroo ward. The variables were analyzed using Microsoft Excel® 2010 program to obtain percentages.Results: There was a prevalence of extremely premature infants with high underweight and small size for the gestational age, male gender and browns, with Apgar score at 1st and 5th minutes more than 7, born by cesarean section, who used mechanical ventilation and surfactant, with prevalence of respiratory distress syndrome, with admission weight in Kangaroo ward less than 1.250g, making use of exclusive breast milk, who were attended by physiotherapy and with weight less than 1.600g at discharge, of the variables studied.Conclusions: Kangaroo care is an excellent cost-effective model for the newborn coming from the neonatal intensive care unit.


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