Does skin-to-skin care with a parent improve heart rate variability in preterm infants receiving respiratory support?
Skin-to-skin care with parents safely improves autonomic nervous system maturity and heart rate variability in preterm infants on respiratory support.
Skin-to-skin care with a parent resulted in a more mature autonomic nervous system pattern in preterm infants receiving respiratory support, suggesting physiologic benefit for the infant. No adverse events were seen during any session.
Swieter et al. (Mon,) studied this question.