早期新生児期における保清方法の実態調査

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[Purpose] In Japan, it was customary to bathe newborn babies in warm immediately followingdelivery. However this practice was reconsidered in 1974, at the recommendation of the AmericanAcademy of Pediatrics. Presently, some institutions do not perform bathing while others continuethe practice. Therefore, we conducted a survey in order to identify the sanitary measures currentlycarried out in the early neonatal stage and determine why they were adopted. The present studyalso seeks to clarify advice on bathing newborn babies. [Survey method] In May 2007, a surveyquestionnaire was sent to 59 institutions that handled deliveries in Niigata Prefecture andresponses were received from 40 institutions. [Results] The sanitary measures used at birth andduring the hospital stay were classified into categories A to E. The most common was categoryA(72.5%), dry-bathing immediately after birth and daily bathing from the following day. The reasonfor the sanitary measure taken immediately following birth was "to maintain the body temperatureof neonates" in every category, while from the following day, the reasons differed according to thecategory, such as "to avoid energy consumption", "to maintain constant body temperature andcondition" , and "to keep the neonates clean".
2008-03-10