This section covers special temperature needs of infants and the detrimental effects of cold stress on infants.

Upon completion of this section, the participant will:

1. Be able to identify infants at higher risk for becoming hypothermic

2. Understand ways infants lose body heat and be more knowledgeable about protecting the infant against cooling.

3. Understand the detrimental effects of cold stress.

4. Understand how a severely hypothermic infant may develop pulmonary vasoconstriction and right to left shunting at the ductus arteriosus and foramen ovale.

5. Understand the process for warming severely hypothermic infants.