Effect of atracurium or pancuronium on the anemic fetus during and directly after intravascular intrauterine transfusion. A double blind randomized study

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 763-767

  Mouw, Ronald J C ^a   Klumper, Frans ^a   Hermans, Jo ^a   Brandenburg, Henri C R ^a   Kanhai, Humphrey H H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atracurium; Computer analyzed fetal heart rate recording; Fetal paralysis; Intrauterine transfusion; Pancuronium

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM; INDOMETACIN; PANCURONIUM; PETHIDINE; PROMETHAZINE;

ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MOVEMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAUTERINE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PARALYSIS; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; WELLBEING;

EID: 0032863017     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/j.1600-0412.1999.780904.x     Document Type: Article

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