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Cell defense grid. Incubator air setpoint at 39.2 °C. Core temperature reached 40.7 °C, Target core temperature 37 °C. Currently core temperature reached is over by 3.7 °C.TUNING0102030403740.7in °C
t = 0.0s

Core temperature reached

40.7°C

Target core temperature

37°C

Core temperature reached is over by 3.7 °C

39.2 °C

Cell defense grid. Incubator air setpoint at 39.2 °C. Core temperature reached 40.7 °C, Target core temperature 37 °C. Currently core temperature reached is over by 3.7 °C.

What has to balanceΔinternal≈0\Delta_{internal} \approx 0

What is happening

You take control of a neonatal incubator drifting out of its safe band.

The readout keeps climbing. The infant must be held at 37.0 °C core temperature, in this incubator the baby’s core runs 1.5 °C warmer than the air around it, and the air setpoint is wrong.