A swallowing and breastfeeding intervention programme for small and sick neonates embedded in kangaroo mother care.
Alta Kritzinger, Elise Van Rooyen, Anne-Marie Bergh
PMID 39221745WHAT IT FOUND
No patient outcomes are reported.
This paper describes a swallowing and breastfeeding programme for small and sick neonates in kangaroo mother care, so it cannot show that the programme works.
What this paper is
This is a clinical description of a swallowing and breastfeeding programme for small and sick neonates embedded in kangaroo mother care. It explains recommended steps such as non-nutritive suckling, somatic-oral stimulation, stress reduction, postural support and safe swallowing, but it reports no patients, methods or outcomes. There is no finding here to change practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the described programme as evidence that it works. The article reports no participants, outcomes or comparisons.