The effect of transport on the rate of severe intraventricular hemorrhage in very low birth weight infants

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 291-295

  Towers, Craig V ^a   Bonebrake, Robert ^b   Padilla, Guadalupe ^b   Rumney, Pamela ^a  

^a Long Beach Memorial Women's Hospital   (United States)

^b MILLER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ACIDOSIS; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; PATIENT TRANSFER; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 0033957935     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(99)00528-1     Document Type: Article

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