Comparison of Chest-to-Back Skin-to-Skin Contact and Chest-to-Chest Skin-to-Skin Contact on the Risk of Oxygen Desaturation and Change in Heart Rate in Low Birth Weight and/or Premature Babies: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">SPO<sub>2</sub></td><td class="align_center">HR</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Perfect stability or regular means ≥90% (has 2 points)</td><td class="align_center">Perfect stability or regular means ≥100 bpm to ≤180 bpm (has 2 points)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Minor instability means any falls to 80%-90% (has 1 point)</td><td class="align_center">Minor instability means deceleration to 80 bpm-99 bpm (has 1 point)</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Severe instability means any falls below 80% (has 0 points)</td><td class="align_center">Severe instability means &lt;80 bpm or &gt;180 bpm (has 0 points)</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Transformation of the outcomes from continuous scale to ordinal or SCRIP score.</div>

International Journal of Pediatrics

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Table 1: Comparison of Chest-to-Back Skin-to-Skin Contact and Chest-to-Chest Skin-to-Skin Contact on the Risk of Oxygen Desaturation and Change in Heart Rate in Low Birth Weight and/or Premature Babies: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial 

Table 1 | Comparison of Chest-to-Back Skin-to-Skin Contact and Chest-to-Chest Skin-to-Skin Contact on the Risk of Oxygen Desaturation and Change in Heart Rate in Low Birth Weight and/or Premature Babies: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial 