Organizzazione sanitaria
Raccomandazioni per l’assistenza alla madre in puerperio e al neonato
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ESSENTIAL POST-PARTUM CARE TO MOTHER AND BABIES
Gennaio 2000 - pagg. 35 -43
Abstract
The document is the final product of a process which comprised bibliographic search, discussion
and consensus development among the various professionals involved in post-partum
care to mothers and to newborn babies, in both hospital and primary health care settings.
It provides recommendations for essential care with special emphasis on: ensuring
emotional support to the mother, promoting physiology of birth, avoiding unnecessary technology
or procedures, performing essential screening procedures, promoting breast feeding;
ensuring a flexible approach to discharge from hospital, based on evaluation on
mother’s and baby health status but also on familial and social context; providing continuity
of care after discharge based on domiciliary visits and support and early contact with
the family paediatrician. To ensure that these principles are fulfilled, close cooperation
among all the different professionals and health services involved is necessary, as well as
flexibility to ensure quality and continuity of care in different settings. The recommendations
have been approved by the official representatives of all the different professionals involved
in post-partum and newborn care and as such it represents a pilot experience within
the italian NHS.
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