Skin-to-skin contact to support preterm infants and reduce NICU-related stress.

Objective: Hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with numerous painful medical interventions, being separated from parents, leads to the high risk of chronic stress for preterm infants. Today, many NICUs use more appropriate developmental care and pain management, but the early and long-term outcomes of stress in these vulnerable infants require searching for more stress-reducing interventions in neonatal care. The objective of the study was to investigate how skin-to-skin contact (SSC) can influence the biologic stress levels in preterm infants in the NICU by assessing cortisol and oxytocin levels.

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2: the first clinical case in Ternopil, Ukraine.

Introduction: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has led to a global pandemic among patients of all ages around the world. A new delayed inflammatory syndrome, with potentially severe evolution, has been described in the pediatric population, a population previously considered to be less vulnerable to the severe forms of COVID-19.

Case Report: We describe the first clinical case of multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) in a 7-year-old child of the Ternopil region, Ukraine.