Embrace Infant Warmer

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Embrace Infant Warmer

• Jeffrey McCarthy
• BME 281
• University of Rhode Island

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20,000,000 low birth weight and premature babies
are born each year4,000,000babies die within
their first month of life450 babies will die
during this one hour class
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And she brought forth her firstborn son and
wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in
a manger- Luke 27
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Hypothermia

• World Health Organization definition
• Normothermia
• 36.5C 37.5C 97.7F 99.5F
• Hypothermia
• lt 36.5 C 97.7F
• Common Causes in preterm and low-birth weight
  (LBW) babies
• Not drying a baby
• Not covering a baby
• Placing babies in cold environments

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Thermoregulation

• Thermoreceptors on the skin connect to the
  hypothalamus
• Hypothalamus releases Norepinephrine (NE)
• Release of NE leads to
• Vasoconstriction
• Nonshivering thermogenesis
• Lipolysis of adipose tissue
• Complications include impaired glucose
  regulation, infection, organ failure, abnormal
  coagulation

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Locus Subcoeruleus Proshivering center
Posterior Hypothalamus Origin of central
descending shivering pathway
Nucle Raphe Magnus Anti Shivering Center
DeWitte J, et al. Anesthesiology
200296(2)467-484
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Problem Solved
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Challenges in Underdeveloped Countries

• Education
• Culturally values
• Money
• Electricity
• Technical ability
• Infrastructure

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Embrace Infant Warmer Engineers
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References

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• 3.) Shenoi A. Low-cost Warming Devices Critical
  and Essential Component for Neonates. Perinatol
  201213 (3)97-99.
• 4.) www.polymic.com . ltwww.policymic.com/articles
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  armeris-saving-uganda-s-newbornsgt Accessed
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