Admission temperatures following radiant warmer or incubator transport for preterm infants <28 weeks: a randomised study
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- 24 January 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal & Neonatal
- Vol. 92 (4), F295-F297
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2006.107128
Abstract
Sixty two infants <28 weeks were occlusively wrapped and randomised to radiant warmer or incubator transport to the neonatal unit. Median axillary temperature on arrival was 36.8 degrees C in both groups. Target temperatures (36.5-37.5 degrees C) were achieved in 60% of the incubator group compared to 75% in the warmer group (not statistically significant). While powered to detect a 35% difference between warming devices, a more modest difference is not excluded.Keywords
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