2024-01-03 11:43:57
Isabelle Zimmer, nurse in the home neonatology unit at the University Hospitals of Strasbourg, weighs little Augustin, 11 days old and a little over 2 kilos, under the watchful eye of his parents Sarah and Julien. Thomas TOUSSAINT / PHOTOPQR/DNA/MAXPPP
REPORTAGE – The Strasbourg neonatology department is experimenting with the early return home of very premature babies. A project developed by Professor Pierre Kuhn after an experience in Sweden.
From our correspondent in Strasbourg
Robin yawns with pleasure, sitting comfortably on the knees of Mike, his dad. This 4.7 kilo infant does not yet know it, but he is a pioneer: the new family was the first to benefit from “home neonatology” set up by the University Hospitals of Strasbourg, under the leadership of the Professor Pierre Kuhn, head of the neonatology department at the University Hospitals of Strasbourg. “We have had an exemplary journey”assures Élise, Robin’s mother.
Pierre Kuhn, who worked for a year in Sweden, returned convinced of the benefits for the child of “zero separation” from his parents, from birth to leaving the maternity ward. But what to do when the child is very premature and that the stay extends up to fifteen, even sixteen weeks? Since 2014, Pierre Kuhn has been leading the project of a device for very premature babies, until now limited to rare French centers such as Toulouse: as soon as they are respiratory stable…
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