Study on the Cooling Methods for Children with High Fever.

VernacularTitle:小児のクーリング方法の検討
Author: Emiko OONO ; Naomi TAKAHASI ; Akiko ASANO ; Yayoi YOSHIDA
Publication Type:Journal Article
From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine 2002;51(2):134-136
CountryJapan
Language:Japanese
Abstract: It is difficult to cool children with high fever by the conventional method because they cannot keep quiet in the bed, playing briskly or clinging on to their mother's bosom. We have devised new cooling methods available in any posture of the children. Cooling agents were packed into a rucksack or vest to cool the back, or into a rag doll to cool the axilla. The effectiveness of these devices was examined. The mothers of the patients at the age of 1 to 3 selected one of the three cooling methods randomly. As a result, the rucksack type were the vest type were accepted by their children for many hours, and were effective in lowering bode temperature in 65% of the cases. The mothers also seemed to like the new cooling methods. They commented that their children are free from restraint and the cooling devices are conveniently invisible for them.