Continuous monitoring using thermography can capture the heat oscillations maintaining body temperature in neonates.

ABSTRACT: The body temperature of infants at equilibrium with their surroundings is balanced between heat production from metabolism and the transfer of heat to the environment. Total heat production is related to body size, which is closely related to metabolic rate and oxygen consumption. Body temperature control is a crucial aspect of neonatal medicine but we have often struggled with temperature measures. Contactless infrared thermography (IRT) is useful for vulnerable neonates and may be able to assess their spontaneous thermal metabolism. The present study focused on heat oscillations and their cause. IRT was used to measure the skin temperature every 15 s of neonates in an incubator. We analyzed the thermal data of 27 neonates (32 measurements), calculated the average temperature within speci

SUBMITTER: Morimoto A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11076520 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature