106
Participants
Start Date
August 31, 2011
Primary Completion Date
March 31, 2012
Study Completion Date
December 31, 2012
Resuscitation and post resuscitation care with plastic bag
Infant will be resuscitated and placed in a plastic bag up to his/her neck and around the back of his head (not covering the face) in the delivery room and taken to the nursery. The infant will remain in the plastic bag until first axillary temperature remains stable at 36.5-37.5 degrees Celsius. Expected length of time approximately one hour.
Resuscitation- no plastic bag for temperature regulation
Infant will be resuscitated in the delivery room and taken to the nursery. The infant will be observed per unit standard until first axillary temperature remains stable at 36.5-37.5 degrees Celsius. Expected length of time approximately one hour.
University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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