Drying Very Preterm Infants Before Plastic Wrapping at Birth

Does drying before plastic wrapping improve thermoregulation of very preterm infants at birth?This multicenter randomized clinical trial including 354 very preterm infants found that drying before plastic wrapping provided no benefit in maintaining normothermia at neonatal intensive care unit admission.This finding does not support the introduction of drying before wrapping in the thermal management bundle in very preterm infants at birth.

Corresponding Author: Daniele Trevisanuto MD, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani, 3, 35128 Padova, Italy (daniele.trevisanuto@unipd.it).

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