title: Convective burn from use of hairdryer for heel warming prior to the heel prick test - a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Blood sampling through heel lancing is the most common invasive painful procedure performed on newborn infants.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report the case of a five day old infant who sustained burns to the left foot and leg after the mother's hairdryer was used by the midwife to warm the baby's heel prior to capillary blood sampling (CBS) with an automated device.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Heel warming is not recommended for routine CBS although it is often practiced. If pre-warming is to be practiced, standardised devices should be used rather than improvised techniques. This will reduce the risk of injury to these infants.
authors.affiliation: Speciality Training Registrar, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Trauma Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. robbie.ray@nhs.net
authors.forename: Robbie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ray
authors.forename: Yvette
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Godwin
authors.forename: Ashley
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shepherd
mesh_terms: D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000379:methods*; D002056:Burns / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006361:Heating / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006365:Heel / Q000098:blood supply*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male