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A transport incubator is an incubator in a transportable form, and is used when a sick or premature baby is moved, e.g., from one hospital to another, as from a community hospital to a larger medical facility with a proper neonatal intensive-care unit.
An incubator is a plastic dome-shaped machine designed as a crib that regulates a newborn infant's body temperature. The incubator is designed to allow the temperature to be adjusted according to the state of the baby's current body heat. A range of five types of incubators all serve different purposes in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Embrace, based in San Francisco, California, makes low-cost portable baby incubators that don’t require a stable electricity supply. The Embrace incubator resembles a sleeping bag, but for a baby.
Her twin sister was also a small baby, weighing 563 g (1 lb 3.9 oz) at birth. During pregnancy their mother had pre-eclampsia , requiring birth by caesarean section . The larger twin left the hospital at the end of December, while the smaller remained there until 10 February 2005 by which time her weight had increased to 1.18 kg (2 lb 10 oz ...
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Incubator (culture), a device used to grow and maintain microbiological cultures or cell cultures; Incubator (egg), a device for maintaining the eggs of birds or reptiles to allow them to hatch; Incubator (neonatal), a device used to care for premature babies in a neonatal intensive-care unit
Infant respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS), also known as surfactant deficiency disorder (SDD), [2] and previously called hyaline membrane disease (HMD), is a syndrome in premature infants caused by developmental insufficiency of pulmonary surfactant production and structural immaturity in the lungs.
Concern grows over fate of patients at al-Shifa with no fuel – as UN says just one hospital in nothern Gaza, al-Awda, still has electricity and is able to receive the wounded and sick