Evidencia científica frente a precariedad asistencial: el reto de un «piel con piel» seguro
Roser Calafat, Núria Barrera · 2026
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Calafat and Barrera write this 2026 letter to the editor, in Spanish, responding to a study linking immediate skin-to-skin contact after birth with breastfeeding success in Latin America. They accept the evidence but warn that the article skips the decisive practical variable: staffing. Safe skin-to-skin contact is not a passive act of laying a newborn on the mother's chest, they argue, but an actively monitored one.
Clinical guidance demands close visual and physical monitoring of the newborn's airway throughout. The stakes concentrate early. By the figure they cite, 73 percent of sudden postnatal collapse cases occur during the first two hours of life. Continuous qualified surveillance means midwife and pediatric nursing ratios that many under-resourced maternity units cannot reach today. Promoting uninterrupted contact without funding that supervision, the authors conclude, risks turning a sound recommendation into clinical recklessness.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Roser Calafat, Núria Barrera |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |