The ffect of early parent-infant contact on newborn body temperature.
To determine whether infants who are properly dried and wrapped can be held and warmed by parents in the delivery room without suffering a significant heat loss, temperatures of 100 infants were monitored with electronic thermometers after delivery; 50 were held by one or both parents and 50 were not held but immediately placed in a heated transporter. A two-tailed t test showed no significant differences between temperatures of the two groups.
D001831:Body Temperature; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000517:prevention & control; D007186:Incubators, Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D013821:Thermometers / Q000592:standards