Skin-to-Skin Care Is a Safe and Effective Comfort Measure for Infants Before and After Neonatal Cardiac Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the effect of skin-to-skin care on stress, pain, behavioral organization, and physiologic stability of infants with critical congenital heart disease before and after neonatal cardiac surgery.

Design

A baseline response-paired design was used, with infants acting as their own controls before, during, and after skin-to-skin care at two distinct time points: once in the preoperative period (T1) and once in the postoperative period (T2).

Setting

Cardiac ICU and step-down unit in a large metropolitan freestanding children's hospital.

Subjects

Convenience sample of 30 infants admitted preoperatively for critical congenital heart disease.

Interventions

Eligible infants were placed into skin-to-skin care for 1 hour with their biological

SUBMITTER: Lisanti AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8865053 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature