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. 2023 Mar 27;44(5):1023–1031. doi: 10.1007/s00246-023-03149-2

Table 3.

Identified Barriers to Successful DR SSC

Identified barriers to successful DR SSC
Lack of comfort with CHD and expected pathophysiology
Incomplete/inadequate prenatal documentation or communication for delivery hospital team
Individual delivery hospital implementation challenges
 Staffing model concerns
 Time limitations
 Comfort level with culture change
 Multiprovider and multisubspecialty communication
Insufficient team education/project awareness
Maternal cesarean section
Unexpected delivery outside expected regional delivery hospital

Identified barriers to achieving successful DR SSC for patients meeting eligibility requirements

DR delivery room, SSC skin-to-skin care, CHD congenital heart disease