Use of chemical warming packs during delivery room resuscitation is associated with decreased rates of hypothermia in very low-birth-weight neonates

Advances in Neonatal Care

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 357-362

  Pinheiro, Joaquim M B ^a   Boynton, Susan ^a   Furdon, Susan A ^a   Dugan, Robin ^a   Reu Donlon, Christine ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold stress; Devices; Hyperthermia; Hypothermia; Infant; Newborn; Normothermia; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

SODIUM THIOSULFATE; THIOSULFATE;

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HEATING; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THERMOREGULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HEATING; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEW YORK; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THIOSULFATES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053587540     PISSN: 15360903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANC.0b013e318229aa8f     Document Type: Article

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