Abstract:OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of hypothermia, risk factors and outcomes associated with lower temperature on admission to the neonatal intensive care unit in very low birth weight infants. METHODS: Longitudinal, observational, prospective study. Very low birth weight infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit between October/2017 to September/2018 were included. The dependent variable was axillary temperature at admission. Hypothermia incidence was calculated and temperature averages were com… Show more
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