ECMO-/ECLS

 Body weight
 Air temperature
 Air currents in room or incubator
 Maturity of neonate’s skin
 Evaporation – heat transfer by energy-carrying watter from the skin and respiratory
tract to a drier environment
 Affected by
 Maturity of neonate’s skin
 Wet skin (newly born neonate, prior to drying off)
 Radiation – net rate of heat loss in the form of electromagnetic waves between the
body and environmental surfaces not in contact with the body
 Dependent on temperature differences between the body and solid objects facing
it.
 Radiant heat loss factors
 Skin temperature
 Exposed surface area
 Distance and angles to irradiated objects (e.g. incubator walls, nearby
windows)
 NB
 Radiant heat loss is independent of air temperature
 Cold stress is possible if surrounding walls or windows are sufficiently cold