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Operation
Using skin temperature control
Connecting skin temperature sensor
1 Insert yellow sensor plug into the yellow socket on left
side of housing.
2 Route sensor cable through one of the flexible hose
seals in the canopy.
3 Remove protective foil from adhesive pad and place
skin temperature sensor on pad.
• Using the adhesive pad, attach sensor tip to the
infant's skin where the temperature is to be
measured.
• Keep sensor cable in place with adhesive plaster.
Placing sensor
If the baby is lying on its back:
• Attach sensor to the abdomen in the region of the
liver.
If the baby is lying on its stomach:
• Attach the sensor to the back in the region of the
kidneys.
The sensor must never be attached under the baby
since it would then be measuring and controlling core
temperature and not skin temperature.
• Check regularly that the skin temperature sensor
is properly fixed to the baby's skin.
A skin temperature sensor which has fallen off would
be measuring air temperature so that the baby could
become overheated (though the temperature of the air
in the incubator would not exceed 39 °C).
• Do not use skin temperature sensors to measure
rectal temperature.
When a skin temperature sensor is attached but the "air
temperature control" mode is in operation, the measured
skin temperature is displayed.
Skin temperature is not then being controlled.
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