When babies are born, they don’t have enough body fat to keep their body warm. To these newborns, room temperature is extremely cold. This means that babies in developing nations that don’t have access to ways to keep their children warm, leading to many harmful consequences.
To help stop this world wide problem, Embrace Global created the Embrace Warmer, a device that regulates the body temperature of recently born babies, keeping them alive in places that are still developing and would not be able to provide for infant care due to cost or other issues.
The alternatives to the Embrace Warmer are unreliable in developing countries for numerous reasons, each of which the Embrace Warmer aims to solve. Incubators, for example, are extremely expensive, require electricity, and are overall nonviable in developing countries. Radiant warmers have these flaws as well. Thermocol boxes are not effective at maintaining a constant body temperature, while hot coals can severely burn a person. Hot water has a probability of overheating an infant, while light bulbs are ineffective because they require a constant stream off electricity.
The Embrace Warmer is an inexpensive, portable, and effective way to warm infants. The secret is that the embrace warmer incorporates special phase change material to rapidly stabilize the temperature of an infant suffering from hypothermia.
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