Trial reportJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2013
Effect of delivery room temperature on the admission temperature of premature infants: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05425394 (A Study of Effects of Delay in the First Bathing Time of Newborns on the Rate of Body Temperature and the Rate of Exclusive Breastfeeding), which is not on this map. Cited by 26 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Study of Effects of Delay in the First Bathing Time of Newborns on the Rate of Body Temperature and the Rate of Exclusive Breastfeeding: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- 2025 Korean Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Part 9. Neonatal resuscitation.Clinical and experimental emergency medicine · 2026Guideline
- Delivery Room Interventions for Hypothermia in Preterm Neonates: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis.JAMA pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Interventions to prevent hypothermia at birth in preterm and/or low birth weight infants.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Periviable antenatal care, labor and delivery, and initial resuscitation: Some chores to get done before you start.Pediatric research · 2026Review
- Thermoregulation, incubator humidity, and skincare practices in appropriate for gestational age ultra-low birth weight infants: need for more evidence.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2024Review
- Thermoregulation for very preterm infants in the delivery room: a narrative review.Pediatric research · 2024Review
- [Impact of hospital architecture on the birthing experience: a phenomenological study with mothers-to-be who are design experts].Anales del sistema sanitario de Navarra · 2024Article
- Review
- Thermoregulation and golden hour practices in extremely preterm infants: an international survey.Pediatric research · 2023Article
- Multi-modal body part segmentation of infants using deep learning.Biomedical engineering online · 2023Article
- Use of access port covers in transport incubators to improve thermoregulation during neonatal transport.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Duration of skin-to-skin care and rectal temperatures in late preterm and term infants.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Review
- Factors associated with hypothermia within the first 6 hours of life in infants born at ≥34BMC pediatrics · 2022Article
- Improvement in thermoregulation outcomes following the implementation of a thermoregulation bundle for preterm infants.Journal of paediatrics and child health · 2022Article
- Implementation of a temperature bundle improves admission hypothermia in very-low-birth-weight infants in China: a multicentre study.BMJ open quality · 2022Article
- Investigating Pathways of Ventilation Induced Brain Injury on Cerebral White Matter Inflammation and Injury After 24 h in Preterm Lambs.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Reducing intraventricular hemorrhage following the implementation of a prevention bundle for neonatal hypothermia.PloS one · 2022Article
- Singapore Neonatal Resuscitation Guidelines 2021.Singapore medical journal · 2021Article
- Perinatal quality improvement bundle to decrease hypothermia in extremely low birthweight infants with birth weight less than 1000 g: single-center experience over 6 years.Journal of investigative medicine : the official publication of the American Federation for Clinical Research · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine if increasing delivery room temperature to that recommended by the World Health Organization results in increased admission temperatures of preterm infants. STUDY
designAdmission rectal temperatures of newborns ≤32 weeks gestation delivered in rooms with temperature set at 24 to 26 °C were compared with those of similar newborns delivered in rooms with temperature set at 20 to 23 °C.
resultPremature newborns delivered in rooms with mean temperature 25.1±0.6 °C (n=43), compared with those delivered in rooms with mean temperature 22.5±0.6 °C (n=48), had a lower incidence (34.9% vs 68.8%, P<0.01) of admission rectal temperature <36 °C and higher admission rectal temperatures (36.0±0.9 °C vs 35.5±0.8 °C, P<0.01). This difference persisted after adjustment for birth weight and 5 min Apgar score.
conclusionIncreasing delivery room temperatures to that recommended by the World Health Organization decreases cold stress in premature newborns.
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