Solutions

In a humid incubator, most NICU electrodes peel off easily. Or the adhesive gel easily swells. However strong adhesive gel can cause skin irritation. Nihon Kohden electrodes are designed so that they are suitable for humid incubators in an NICU.

An incubator in NICU has a lot of moisture and fogging, so it is difficult to monitor CO₂ through a sampling tube for carbon dioxide.
Therefore transcutaneous gas monitoring has been used in an incubator.
However that has also other risk of burn injury including cutaneous vesicles.

Our brochures and operation manuals recommend using the body weight of the patient as a yardstick when selecting an SpO₂ probe. We also state that the ideal thickness of the measurement site is 6 to 18 mm in Case 2. Nonetheless, there are cases where it is difficult to stably measure an accurate SpO₂ value, especially for neonates and infants.