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  • Title: Water evaporation and heat exchange with the environment in newborn infants.
    Author: Hammarlund K, Sedin G.
    Journal: Acta Paediatr Scand Suppl; 1983; 305():32-5. PubMed ID: 6577776.
    Abstract:
    The amount of water evaporated from the skin of newborn infants and the temperatures of the skin, the ambient air and the surfaces facing the infants were measured and used to calculate the evaporative, radiative and convective heat exchange between the infant and the environment in infants of varying gestational ages. Immediately after birth the evaporative heat exchange was very high but it then decreased gradually. The radiative heat exchange was very high in the delivery room but lower in the incubators. In incubators the evaporative heat exchange was high in the most pre-term infants, especially when nursed at a low ambient humidity. Different modes of heat exchange were interrelated, so that when the pre-term infants had a high evaporation rate, a high ambient temperature was needed and the heat exchange through radiation and convection decreased. Net heat exchange was lowest in very pre-term infants at an ambient humidity of 60%.
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