Convective burn from use of hairdryer for heel warming prior to the heel prick test - a case report

BACKGROUND: Blood sampling through heel lancing is the most common invasive painful procedure performed on newborn infants. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a five day old infant who sustained burns to the left foot and leg after the mother's hairdryer was used by the midwife to warm th...

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Autores principales: Ray, Robbie, Godwin, Yvette, Shepherd, Ashley
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3098783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21569274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-11-30
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description BACKGROUND: Blood sampling through heel lancing is the most common invasive painful procedure performed on newborn infants. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a five day old infant who sustained burns to the left foot and leg after the mother's hairdryer was used by the midwife to warm the baby's heel prior to capillary blood sampling (CBS) with an automated device. CONCLUSION: Heel warming is not recommended for routine CBS although it is often practiced. If pre-warming is to be practiced, standardised devices should be used rather than improvised techniques. This will reduce the risk of injury to these infants.
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spelling pubmed-30987832011-05-21 Convective burn from use of hairdryer for heel warming prior to the heel prick test - a case report Ray, Robbie Godwin, Yvette Shepherd, Ashley BMC Pediatr Case Report BACKGROUND: Blood sampling through heel lancing is the most common invasive painful procedure performed on newborn infants. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a five day old infant who sustained burns to the left foot and leg after the mother's hairdryer was used by the midwife to warm the baby's heel prior to capillary blood sampling (CBS) with an automated device. CONCLUSION: Heel warming is not recommended for routine CBS although it is often practiced. If pre-warming is to be practiced, standardised devices should be used rather than improvised techniques. This will reduce the risk of injury to these infants. BioMed Central 2011-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3098783/ /pubmed/21569274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-11-30 Text en Copyright ©2011 Ray et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Convective burn from use of hairdryer for heel warming prior to the heel prick test - a case report
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title_fullStr Convective burn from use of hairdryer for heel warming prior to the heel prick test - a case report
title_full_unstemmed Convective burn from use of hairdryer for heel warming prior to the heel prick test - a case report
title_short Convective burn from use of hairdryer for heel warming prior to the heel prick test - a case report
title_sort convective burn from use of hairdryer for heel warming prior to the heel prick test - a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3098783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21569274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-11-30
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