Can skin temperature replace rectal temperature monitoring in babies undergoing therapeutic hypothermia in low-resource settings?

Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics

Volumn 101, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Thomas, Niranjan ^a   Rebekah, Grace ^a   Sridhar, Santhanam ^a   Kumar, Manish ^a   Kuruvilla, Kurien Anil ^a   Jana, Atanu Kumar ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLA TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORE TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INFORMED CONSENT; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN MONITORING; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SCAPULA; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84869081629     PISSN: 08035253     EISSN: 16512227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/apa.12010     Document Type: Article

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