Cling wrap, an innovative intervention for temperature maintenance and reduction of insensible water loss in very low-birthweight babies nursed under radiant warmers: A randomized, controlled trial

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 111-118

  Kaushal, M ^a   Agarwal, R ^a   Aggarwal, Rajiv ^a   Singal, A ^a   Upadhyay, M ^a   Srinivas, V ^a   Paul, V K ^a   Deorari, A K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE;

CHILD HEALTH; INFANT MORTALITY;

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; FEMALE; FILM; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NEWBORN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERMOREGULATION; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BEDDING AND LINENS; FEMALE; HEATING; HUMANS; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPOTHERMIA; INCUBATORS, INFANT; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; POLYETHYLENE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WATER LOSS, INSENSIBLE;

EID: 23644432354     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532805X45700     Document Type: Article

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