Goals and options in keeping preterm babies warm

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lyon, A J ^a   Freer, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD STRESS; CORE TEMPERATURE; DEVICE; HEAT LOSS; HEATING; HUMAN; INCUBATOR; MOTIVATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MONITORING; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION; WARMING;

BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HEATING; HUMANS; INCUBATORS, INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PERINATAL CARE;

EID: 78650805273     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.161158     Document Type: Review

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