Swelling caused by too much fluid in the tissues under the skin.
Once a baby can regulate his or her own body temperature, he or she can be transferred from an incubator into an open cot (a cot without a roof).
A fine tube passed through the mouth and into the stomach. It is used to give milk to the baby.
A high frequency oscillator is a breathing device (ventilator) that delivers very rapid breaths at a low pressure into the baby's lungs. This can reduce the amount of damage to an infant's fragile lungs compared to a conventional ventilator.
This is measured by determining the pinkness of the blood as it flows through the hand or foot of the baby. A drop in the baby's blood oxygen level can be immediately detected as an episode of 'desaturation' (desats) and the alarm will alert the baby's nurse when it occurs. If the baby is moving around a lot, this can interfere with the oxygen measurement and cause falsely low measurement/saturation levels.
