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Nathalie Charpak (born 1955) is a French and Colombian pediatrician. As the founder and director of the Kangaroo Foundation, and associate researcher of the Pontifical Xavierian University , her research focuses on the care of low-birth weight preterm infants and the application of kangaroo mother care .
Jan 1, 2017 · Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a multifaceted intervention for preterm and low birth weight infants and their parents. Short- and mid-term benefits of KMC on survival, neurodevelopment, breastfeeding, and the quality of mother–infant bonding were documented in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted in Colombia from 1993 to 1996.
- Nathalie Charpak, Rejean Tessier, Juan G. Ruiz, Jose Tiberio Hernandez, Felipe Uriza, Julieta Villeg...
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Nathalie Charpak. I ams currently an attending paediatrician at the Kangaroo Mother Care program of the San Ignacio University Hospital. In addition I am a founding member, senior researcher and director of the “Fundacion Canguro” in Bogotá, Colombia.
Jan 1, 2017 · Kangaroo mother care (KMC), developed in Bogota, Columbia in the 1970s, was considered an innovative and daring practice at the time. Dr Nathalie Charpak and several colleagues introduced the world to a new way of caring for low birth weight infants: In comparison with the usual cautious practice of incubator...
Jan 26, 2016 · Washington, D.C., 26 January 2015 (PAHO/WHO) - Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) according to Dr. Nathalie Charpak, an internationally respected pediatrician and daughter of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist George Charpak, represents a way of humanizing neonatal healthcare.
Nathalie Charpak. Catalina Lince. Background: Theophylline was an orally administered xanthine used for the treatment of apnea of prematurity and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in the ambulatory ...
Jan 2, 2007 · The components of the Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) intervention, their rational bases, and their current uses in low-, middle-, and high-income countries are described.
