The Newborn Baby: Normal Values |
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| Definitions General Care, Airway and CPR |
| Weight: • Average full term weight = 3.5 kg Normal Blood Volume: • 80 ml/kg Heart Rate: • 120 to 160 per minute • HR is the most important indicator for resuscitation Respiration: • 40 tp 60 per minute Skin: • Colour – usually dusky and peripherally cyanosed • It may take 7 to 10 minutes post birth for SpO2 to reach >90 % and for colour to become pink. Conscious State: • Active motion, grimace and/or crying Temperature: • Aim for normothermia (36.5 to 37.2oC per axilla) • Newborn infants lose heat via the large surface area of the head and by evaporation from their wet body once outside the uterus. BGL: • 2.6 to 3.2 mmoL/L |