Incubator temperature control: effects on the very low birthweight infant.
Open Access
- 30 September 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 60 (10) , 902-907
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.60.10.902
Abstract
We studied temperature stability in 22 infants of birthweight less than 1500 g in the first four days of life. Infants were nursed in incubators using either air mode control or skin temperature servo control. Data were collected continuously using a computer linked monitoring system. Skin temperature control resulted in a less stable thermal environment than air mode control. Increased thermal stability in the incubator on air mode control may well be beneficial, particularly to sick, very low birthweight infants.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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