Premature infants are less capable of maintaining thermal balance of head and body with increases of thermal environment than with decreases

American Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-33

  Simbruner, Georg ^a   Ruttner, Eva Maria ^b   Schulze, Andreas ^c   Perzlmaier, Katharina ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Klinikum Schwabing   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Premature infant; Temperature regulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCUBATOR; MONITORING; NASOPHARYNX; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SENSOR; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMISTOR; THERMOREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; NASOPHARYNX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 13244288114     PISSN: 07351631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-837265     Document Type: Article

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