Keeping Infants Warm
- 1 February 2008
- journal article
- foundations in-newborn-care
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Advances in Neonatal Care
- Vol. 8 (1), 6-12
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.anc.0000311011.33461.a5
Abstract
Hypothermia is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in infants; therefore, maintaining normal body temperatures in the delivery room is crucial. An understanding of how infants produce heat and what can be done to maintain normal body temperatures in full-term and preterm infants is essential for the preservation of thermal stability in this population. This article reviews the consequences of hypothermia, mechanisms of heat exchange and heat production in full-term and low birth-weight infants, and discusses interventions in the delivery room to alleviate hypothermia.Keywords
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