TY - JOUR T1 - Scald injury from the Guthrie test: should the heel be warmed? JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - F533 LP - F534 DO - 10.1136/adc.2005.072678 VL - 90 IS - 6 AU - Z Hassan AU - M Shah Y1 - 2005/11/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/90/6/F533.abstract N2 - A 6 day old boy sustained scalds to his right foot from application of a “warm nappy” to increase blood flow to facilitate heel pricking for a routine Guthrie test. It is proposed that active warming of the heel in isolation is not necessary in heel blood sampling. ER -