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Question of the Month – October 2024

You are a pediatric resident rotating in your regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). You are assigned to care for 1-day-old infant born at 26 weeks estimated gestational age (EGA). As you approach the incubator you ask if you can open the top for several minutes to do an exam, and are quickly directed to the side portholes by the friendly bedside nurse. What mechanism of heat loss was the nurse MOST attempting to prevent by this action?

A: Conductive heat loss
B: Evaporative heat loss
C: Convective heat loss
D: Radiative heat loss
E: All of the above

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