Skin-to-Skin Care for Post-Surgical Infants

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Multiple barriers prevent routine skin-to-skin care for infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), particularly for infants requiring surgical consultation. Now, a quality improvement project at Nationwide Children's Hospital shows that routine skin-to-skin care is possible for infants in the NICU who have had surgery.

Read the whole story: Skin-to-Skin Care Safe for Infants After Surgery.

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