Challenges to skin-to-skin kangaroo care: Cesarean delivery and critically ill NICU patients

Neonatal Network

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 259-261

  Mangan, Shelora ^b   Mosher, Sara ^a   Scheans, Patricia ^b  

^a St Charles Health System   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 84870901806     PISSN: 07300832     EISSN: 15392880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0730-0832.31.4.259     Document Type: Article

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