Capillary refilling time in newborn babies: Normal values

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1997, Pages

  Strozik, Krzysztof S ^a,b   Pieper, Clarissa H ^a   Roller, Jacques ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Capillary refilling time; Nursery containers; Phototherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY FLOW; FEMALE; FOOT SOLE; FOREHEAD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAND PALM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCUBATOR; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; NURSERY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNUM; TIME;

CAPILLARIES; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; HUMANS; INFANT EQUIPMENT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRESSURE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; THORAX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030857265     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.76.3.F193     Document Type: Article

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