Atrioventricular conduction time in premature infants about half that in adults;Atrioventriculaire geleidingstijd bij te vroeg geborenen ongeveer de helft van die bij volwassenen

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 244-246

  Van Wezel Meijler, G ^a   Van Genderingen, H R ^a   Meijler, F L ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Instituut voor Anesthesiologie   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART RATE; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY;

ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; BIRTH WEIGHT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC;

EID: 0031057412     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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