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Newborn Study Guide

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Cold Stress?

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excessive heat loss through evaporation, convection, conduction, and radiation

newborn's major source of heat production?

nonshivering thermogenesis (NST)- brown fat metabolism

loss of heat by air current---cover head and swaddle

loss of heat to cooler surfaces, no direct contact--keep cooler objects away from infant

loss of heat when water is converted to vapor--drying newborn---warming beds and phototherapy lights