Body temperatures and oxygen consumption during skin-to-skin (kangaroo) care in stable preterm infants weighing less than 1500 grams.

摘要: Background: More and progressively smaller preterm infants are taken out of the incubator placed skin to on their mother's chest promote bonding, despite concerns that exposed cold during this intervention. Objective: To test hypothesis skin-to-skin care is a stress for weighing less than 1500 gm, with decrease in rectal temperature, peripheral or an increase oxygen consumption compared conditions monitored care. Study design: We studied 22 stable, spontaneously breathing gm (appropriate size gestational age), who had first week life. continuously measured temperature (foot), (indirect calorimetry) 1 hour thermoneutral incubator, care, another incubator. Mean values three periods were by analysis variance. Results: During mean was 0.2° C ( p <0.01) 0.6° higher preceding Back body temperatures returned recorded before Oxygen (6.1 ± 0.9 ml/kg per minute) not significantly (5.8 0.8 minute). Conclusion: For stable age, (J Pediatr 1997;130:240-4)