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Water and Heat Balance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Karen Hammarlund
Karen Hammarlund
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University Hospital, Uppsala
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As those involved in neonatal intensive care are well aware, water and heat balance play a very important role in the well-being of the newborn infant. While some aspects of water and heat balance have been studied extensively, others have been less elucidated. Recent studies have demonstrated that both insensible and sensible water loss depend on the maturity of the infant and that both environmental factors and the activity of the infant can have dramatic effects on both these modes of water loss. As heat loss is affected by the insensible and sensible water loss from the infant, the same factors also have implications for heat loss, but heat loss is also influenced by other factors. The aim of this article is to review some of the knowledge relevant to the fields of water and heat balance in the neonatal period.

Type
Neonatal Disorders of Water and Heat Balance
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 7 , Supplement S1 , January 1991 , pp. 85 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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