• hypothermia
• mortality

CESDI Project 27/28 investigated the standards of care provided to infants who died after birth at 27–28 weeks gestation in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland during 1998–1999, comparing them with controls who survived.¹ Temperature on admission to the neonatal unit was below the British Association of Perinatal Medicine/Royal College of Physicians (BAPM/RCP) standard of 36°C² in 73% of babies who died and 59% of controls. The CESDI report confirms the findings of the EPICure study,³ which showed that low admission temperature was an independent risk factor for neonatal death after adjustment for other known risks. Alarmingly, the CESDI report concludes that, as most units …