Asystoles during infancy recorded by home memory monitors: Benign events?

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 150, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 901-905

  Meny, Robert G ^a   Currey, Kathleen ^a   Scheel, Janet N ^a   Harrington, Donna ^a   Vice, Frank L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM MONITORING; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BRADYCARDIA; FEMALE; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONAL MONITOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

EID: 0029806914     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1996.02170340015003     Document Type: Article

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