neonatal heat injury from pulse oxymeter probes

[selvanr4]

Hello,

How do you avoid neonatal heat burns when oxymeter probe is continously monitoring ?

Do you use any gauze pieces( like we use)?

Does it depend on the quality of the probe?

Your inputs are welcome

[Ommyar]

We use a special type of probes whish is soft rubber encircling the whole circumfrenc of the limp we almost never record this type of injury since we start useing it

[Guest sameera_reddy]

In extremely premature neonate s we do see these kind of burns with the same kind of soft foam wrapping probed

[Dinesh N Patel]

Wr use disosible spo2 probe. We also change the probe site every4-6 hrly depending the maturity of newborn infant.

[Guest JoannieO]

We also change the probe every 4 hours - the more immature the infant, the more likely that there will be a burn.

[drmpoki]

We also change the probe every 2-4 hours -depending on the age