Effective temperature under radiant infant warmer: Does the device make a difference?

Resuscitation

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 720-723

  Trevisanuto, Daniele ^a   Coretti, Ivano ^b   Doglioni, Nicoletta ^a   Udilano, Angelo ^b   Cavallin, Francesco ^a   Zanardo, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Delivery room; Infant newborn; Neonatal resuscitation; Radiant infant warmer; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIANT INFANT WARMER; RANDOMIZATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

INCUBATORS, INFANT; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79956140333     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.02.019     Document Type: Article

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