Fetal cerebral oxygenation measured by near-infrared spectroscopy shortly before birth and acid-base status at birth

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 861-866

  Aldrich, Clive J ^a   D’antona, Donato ^a   Wyatt, John S ^a   Spencer, John A D ^a   Peebles, Donald M ^a   Reynolds, E Osmund R ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH; BRAIN OXYGEN TENSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ACID BASE BALANCE; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OXYGENATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL VEIN;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL MONITORING; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; OXYGEN; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PREGNANCY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UMBILICAL VEINS;

EID: 0028116864     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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