[Skin care and transcutaneous monitoring in neonatal intensive care unit].
Newborn skin, particularly in preterm infants, is exposed to iatrogenic complications resulting from lesions provoked by diagnosis and therapeutic devices. This paper reviews some principles of skin care in neonatal intensive care units and focuses on iatrogenic lesions and the proposed methods to prevent them.
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Service de Médecine Néonatale de Port-Royal, Centre Hospitalier Cochin-Saint-Vincent-de-Paul-La Roche-Guyon, 123, boulevard de Port-Royal, 75014 Paris.
Delaitre
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Jarreau
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D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease / Q000517:prevention & control; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D015931:Intensive Care, Neonatal / Q000379:methods*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D017592:Skin Care / Q000379:methods*; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control