An apparatus and method of controlling a temperature within an isolette includes obtaining a temperature of ambient air external to the isolette, obtaining a base-line ambient air temperature, and calculating a maximum heater power level based on a relationship between the base-line ambient air temperature and the actual ambient air temperature.

An infant care system creates a microenvironment about an infant patient. An environmental control device is operable to change an environmental condition within the microenvironment. An auxiliary sensor is operable to intermittently obtain auxiliary data. A processor operates the environmental control device based upon at least the intermittently obtained auxiliary data.

A method and apparatus includes an infant holding area, a display area, a heating system for warming the infant holding area, an environmental sensor, a physiological sensor, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive an environmental sensor input from the environmental sensor and a physiological sensor input from the physiological sensor. The processor is configured to determine a recommended skin temperature based on the environmental sensor input and the physiological sensor input. The processor is configured to display the recommended skin temperature on the display area.

An infant care system comprises a platform configured to support an infant and to receive an applied force on the platform. The infant care system also comprises at least two load cells connected to the platform, each of the two load cells configured to receive at least a portion of the applied force on the platform and generate a signal indicative of the portion of applied force received. The infant care system also comprises a processor configured to receive and analyze the signals from the load cells and perform a function based on the analyzed signals.

The present disclosure provides an incubator capable of enabling a user to easily and sufficiently perform a required operation inside an infant accommodation space of the incubator, since substantially the entire area of a hand insertion opening is actually opened when the user opens a service door and inserts their hand into the hand insertion opening. In the incubator, the hand insertion opening is configured so as to be capable of being opened and closed by the service door in a first state in which a first support frame member is attached to a peripheral wall section of the infant accommodation space, and the hand insertion opening is configured so as to be capable of functioning as an aperture window in a second state in which a second support frame member, a third support frame member, and an aperture window forming member are respectively attached to the peripheral wall section.

The present invention provides an incubator in which there is no particular need to interpose annular shaped packing, which is capable of substantially maintaining airtightness between a base frame positioned in the vicinity of an outer periphery of a service port and a service door, between the vicinity of the outer periphery of the service port and the service door. The incubator includes a substantially ring-shaped insertion groove that is formed in an inner face of the service door so as to substantially run along an outer periphery of the inner face, and a substantially ring-shaped outer peripheral portion that is formed to the base frame, and is configured such that a substantially ring-shaped leading end of the substantially ring-shaped outer peripheral portion can be inserted in a substantially ring shape into the substantially ring-shaped insertion groove.

A neonate incubator for positioning a neonate within a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device is provided. The neonate incubator can include: a proximal end and a distal end; a radio frequency (RF) shielding door coupled to the distal end, the RF shielding door to mate with a bore of the MRI device to provide RF shielding; and a RF channel that extends along an axis that is substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the neonate incubator from an interior chamber of the neonate incubator through the RF shielding door, the RF channel having a length to width ratio of at least 5 to 1.

A premature neonate closed life support system (NCLSS) including: at least one chamber confining a cradle-like neonate support (CLNS) having suitable dimensions and geometric-configuration for accommodating at least one premature neonate having at least two operational configurations, said operational configurations comprising: a first operational OPEN configuration whereby said CLNS is adapted to couple said neonate to at least one life supporting system by means of at least one life supporting coupling line, prior to positioning said CLNS in a medical device; and a second operational air-tight CLOSED configuration whereby said neonate remains continuously coupled to said at least one supporting system by means of at least one life supporting coupling line, when positioning said CLNS within said medical device. The OPEN and CLOSED configurations are reversible.

An incubator 1 includes: a transparent hood 3, covering an accommodating space 10 configured to accommodate a baby; an illumination light source 14, disposed so as to avoid disturbing observation of the baby through the transparent hood 3; and an emitting member 13, fixed to the transparent hood 3, and configured to emit light from the illumination light source 14, so as to illuminate the accommodating space 10.

An incubator of the disclosure is configured such that a top hood is detachable from a peripheral frame by unlatching first latch mechanisms that latch the top hood. The incubator is also configured such that any of wall portion among four wall portions configuring the peripheral frame are detachable from an incubator base by unlatching any of corresponding second to fifth latch mechanisms.