E4 -Safe Sleep: Balancing Skin to Skin contact with the risk of Sudden Unexpected Postnatal Collapse

Title: E4 -Safe Sleep: Balancing Skin to Skin contact with the risk of Sudden Unexpected Postnatal Collapse

Disciplines: Newborn Care (N)

Learning Objectives:
  • Describe sudden postnatal collapse of apparently healthy newborns (SUPC)
  • Review safe skin to skin practices for prevention of SUPC
  • Identify high risk situations that require closer infant monitoring during skin-to-skin and methods to mitigate risk.

    • Submission Description:
    The purpose of this presentation is to describe best practice implementation for ensuring safe skin-to-skin from birth through the newborn hospital stay. A description of sudden unexpected postnatal collapse will be provided and review of recommendations to prevent this phenomenon.
    Tuesday, June 16, 2015: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
    Grand Ballroom 2 (Long Beach Convention Center)
    Moderator:
    Susan B. Bishop, MN, RNC-OB
    Presenting Authors:
    Susan Faron, MN, RNC-OB, CNS and Jacqueline B. Hiner, MSN/Ed, RNC-OB, CNS
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