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The document discusses the use of incubators for caring for premature and low birth weight babies. It describes how incubators provide a thermo-neutral environment to help the babies develop properly. It discusses the different types of incubators and how they are set up and used. Maintaining the proper temperature, humidity, and other environmental factors inside the incubator is important for the health and survival of the babies. Incubators must be carefully cleaned and maintained to prevent the spread of infections.

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The document discusses the use of incubators for caring for premature and low birth weight babies. It describes how incubators provide a thermo-neutral environment to help the babies develop properly. It discusses the different types of incubators and how they are set up and used. Maintaining the proper temperature, humidity, and other environmental factors inside the incubator is important for the health and survival of the babies. Incubators must be carefully cleaned and maintained to prevent the spread of infections.

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INCUBATOR
New born babies take time to accustom to the external environment specially if
they one premature and low birth weight. As they are on a risk to develop
hypoxia. Hypothermia and other may associated adverse condition need special
care and attention.

The term incubation has derived from a latin word ‘incubare’ that means ‘licon’
incubator is the process of providing an environment to keep them warm and
suitable for their development as birds sit on their eggs to hatch them.

Similarly incubation is an apporatles lessed to care the ‘premature’ low birth


weight and very sick babies in the thermo neutral environment.

Application of oil and liquid paraffin to the skin of the babies either inside the
incubator or outside reduce the heat loss by 50% gt is very essential for baby to
obtain an ideal environment for growth and development basically survival
itself.

This about one third of nursery beds schedule comprises of incubators.

INDICATION
Indication of incubation are depended on ability of neonates to sustain and
adopt external environment. But generally all premature babies with low birth
weight (100g) may be stable, hypothermic child (32°C) sick children need
incubator and its care.

Frequently incubator is used to transport babies from one place to another nlike
referral to another hospital, whilthing the hospital from various investigation.

Example :-

CT scan and MRI, Neonates who need close observation are also kept in the
incubators.

PURPOSE
Main purpose of keeping and caring a neonate incubator are –

1. Maintenance of thermo neutral ambient temperature.


2. Provision of desired humidity and oxygenation.
3. Observation of newborn babies from infractions on favourable external
environment and stimulation.

TYPES
Incubation can be various type –

1. Protable and non protable


2. Open box type
3. Close type
4. Double walled
5. Servo control incubation

1. Protable and non protable –

Protable incubation can be used to shift the patient to another area of


hospital as needed.

2. Open box type-

It is also known as Armstrong here neonate is keep on the plexiglass


bassinet to keep unstable babies or newly born babies a radiane warmer
cabe attached if child needs the main disadvantage of this type of
incubator is it cannot maintain thermo neutral environment. If lids are
open frequently despite it cannot filter the air and neonate is directly in
the contact with external environment it has only advantage that neonate
in this incubator can be observed well and can be handled easily.

3. Close type –

Close type of incubator has special function to concentrate fresh air after
filterationm if prevents water loss from radiation as neonate remain inside
the box the risk of infection is minimum.

4. Double walled –
The incubator has two walls as air is not good conductor of heat the
incubator prevents heat and fluid loss.

5. Servo control incubator

It is best type of incubator and most frequently desired it is automatically


operated and set the parameters as per needs of neonate skin sensor or
thermo capsure is affixed with the abdominal wall of neonate midway
blue unbilious and XIPI sternum and incubator is set to maintain there at
36°C.

It is provided with inbuilt ardic visual alarm for set temperature with
upper and lower desered temperature air flow and prob failure. Recent
models of incubators have alarming systems which even suggests the
action to be performed.

IDEAL DETTING OF INCUBATOR


Setting of incubators depends upon various parameters of neonate as well as
environment.

Example : gestational age maturity body temperature and presence or absence


of disease. Recommended necessary temperature is 28-30°C the incubator
temperature should be such as it will maintain the temperature of neonate
between 35 - 37°C

Age Birth weight in grams


<1200 1201 - 1500 1501- 2500
1st day 35.0 ± 0.5 34.3 ± 0.5 33.4 ± 1.0

2nd day 34.5 ± 0.5 33.7 ± 0.5 32.7 ± 1.0

3rd day 34.5 ± 0.5 33.5 ± 0.5 33.0 ± 1.0

4th day 35.5 ± 0.5 32.8 ± 0.5 32.2 ± 1.0

A humidity of 60 – 70 % is sufficient under most circumstances.

PROCEDURE
 Warm and oxygenate the incubator as receive the message of expected
arrival of neonate generally 10.15 minutes
 Check the physicians order. Explain the needs of incubator care to the
parents of neonate.
 Adjust the incubation parameters and maintain follow the chart
 Remove the clothes of the neonate and place inside incubation.
 Provide meticulous care as long neonate remains inside.
 Continue to the doctor if baby is not maintaining the temperature.
 Do not bring the neonate out without justificable cause.
 In open care system cover the baby with warm clothes to minimum heat
loss.
 Report to the doctor if baby is not maintaining the temperature.

CLEANING AND STERILIZATION


When the incubator is occupied, it should be cleaned daily with mind
detergent. Humidifier chamber must be emptied and cleaned daily filled
with fresh distilled water.

After seven days neonate should be shifted to another incubator and used
incubator should be cleaned with antiseptic solution 1.2 m L of glacial
aletic acid or vinegar can be to water in the humidifier to prevent
bacterial growth.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATION

1. It is important that the incubator should not interfere with observation of


the neonate and quality of care.
2. Sensory stimuli like light and pain should be kept to the minimal.
3. When neonate develops fever the incubation modes have to be changed in
normal modes.
4. When the neonate is nursed in the proper position, slan sensor is placed
over the flark and it should not touch the bed. The neonate in the
incubator should not be botted.
5. The daily lines should be kept with in the nessesory to kept warm.
6. No alarm should be ignored.

SUMMARY
Incubator and infant radiant warmer in one device relative humidity option
sevival attress all around access uniform central thermal environment it’s a
advantage of incubator and the advantages a can needed on raising canopy to
avoid collisions with other equipment closed by oxpesive water reservoir
deffiact to open.

CONCLUSION
After optimizing the above methods it was concluded that controller is set upto
operated within a temperature gap of +1-0-1°C.

The overhoot was minimized in order to reduce the setting time and hence
reducing the time taken for heat dessipition.

The setting time from a cold start was achieved within a low to minutes from
the start.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bhavanesh Shukla, Parker Sharma Textbook Of Pediatric Nursing – Published
By Lotus Publishers First Edition – 2011

Page No – 374 – 376

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