Immediate skin-to-skin contact for low birth weight infants is safe in terms of cardiorespiratory stability in limited-resource settings

• Main Authors: Agnes Linnér (Author), Björn Westrup (Author), Siren Rettedal (Author), Kondwani Kawaza (Author), Helga Naburi (Author), Sam Newton (Author), Barak Morgan (Author), Harish Chellani (Author), Sugandha Arya (Author), Vincent Samuel Phiri (Author), Ebunoluwa Adejuyigbe (Author), Naana A.Wireko Brobby (Author), Adwoa Pokua Boakye-Yiadom (Author), Luis Gadama (Author), Evelyne Assenga (Author), Matilda Ngarina (Author), Suman Rao (Author), Rajiv Bahl (Author), Nils Bergman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Aim: To investigate the safety of skin-to-skin contact initiated immediately after birth on cardiorespiratory parameters in unstable low birth weight infants. Methods: A randomized clinical trial was conducted in tertiary newborn units in Ghana, India, Malawi, Nigeria and Tanzania in 2017-2020, in i...