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British Thoracic Society guidelines on diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy
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NeonatologyInterventional PulmonologyDiagnosisPulmonologyControls 17Prenatal CarePublic HealthRadiologyPreterm LaborMaternal HealthPulmonary MedicineDiagnostic Flexible BronchoscopyMidwiferyLung CancerExtra WarmthPhysiologyInfant NutritionPediatricsMinimal Oxygen ConsumptionPreterm BirthThoracic SurgeryMedicine
The study compared 17 healthy preterm infants receiving thermocontrolled, heated, water‑filled mattresses with 17 weight‑matched controls nursed in air‑heated incubators over a three‑week period. No differences were observed in minimal oxygen consumption, rectal and mean skin temperatures, or daily weight gain, but the heated mattresses allowed easier maternal access.
Seventeen healthy preterm babies had extra warmth provided in their cots by thermocontrolled, heated, water filled mattresses. As controls 17 babies of the same weight were nursed in air heated incubators. Both groups were studied for three weeks. No differences were found in minimal oxygen consumption (measured by indirect calorimetry), rectal and mean skin temperatures, or in daily weight gain. The babies were kept just as warm on the heated, water filled mattresses as in air heated incubators but the mattresses had the advantage of giving the mothers easy access to their babies.