Improved fluid management utilizing humidified incubators in extremely low birth weight infants

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 438-443

  Gaylord, Mark S ^a   Wright, Kelly ^a   Lorch, Kimberly ^b   Lorch, Vichien ^a   Walker, Esteban ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIRTH; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FLUID THERAPY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMIDIFIER; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; INCIDENCE; INCUBATOR; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL TIME; UREMIA; URINE VOLUME; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA; DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS, PATENT; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INCUBATORS, INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0034780106     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7210561     Document Type: Article

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