Isolette - An enclosed bassinet for premature babies that helps keep the baby warm
Jaundice - Yellow tinge to your baby's skin caused by too much bilirubin in your baby's bloodstream ...
Isolette
Also known as an incubator, an isolette is a clear plastic, enclosed bassinet used to keep prematurely born infants warm. Premature babies often loose heat very quickly unless they are put in a protected thermal environment.
Isolettes - A special bed for a newborn that is enclosed with clear plastic. The bed has temperature control to help the baby maintain a healthy body temperature.
Isolette - A transparent, box-like enclosure in which sick or preterm babies are placed after birth and until they have reached a point in which the device is no longer necessary.
Incubator/isolette. Incubators are walled plastic boxes with a heating system to circulate warmth. Babies are often dressed in a T-shirt and diaper.
A small (247 in.) Panasonic color video camera was suspended over the infant's isolette by means of a metal extension bar attached to the IV pole. The arrangement in no way interfered with the medical use of the IV pole.
Since a baby born too soon also has trouble maintaining her body temperature, your newborn may be kept in an isolette (an incubator) that helps her stay warm.
Rob wheeled me into the Critical Care Nursery, and I looked at all the tiny babies in Isolettes and bassinets. He wheeled me up to a delicate-looking tiny guy with pink skin and lots of light brown hair. Well, he didn't look like a preemie at all! ...
Walking into one of these units can seem frightening because the babies are usually very small, in isolettes or warming beds, and there are often machines, monitors, and tubes about the bedside.
In some cases, medicines called steroids may be given to the mother in help the baby's lungs mature. When born, the baby is moved to a high-risk nursery. The infant is placed under a warmer or in an machine called an isolette, ...
Premature babies who are moved to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are watched closely for infections and changes in breathing and heart rate. Until they can maintain their body heat, they are kept warm in special beds called isolettes.
Babies on radiant warmer beds are usually dressed only in a diaper.
incubator/isolette
Incubators are walled plastic boxes with a heating system to circulate warmth. Babies are often dressed in a T-shirt and diaper.
 See also: Pregnancy, Delivery, Newborn, Premature, Oxygen
  
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