Foot length, an accurate predictor of nasotracheal tube length in neonates

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Embleton, N D ^a   Deshpande, S A ^b   Scott, D ^a   Wright, C ^a   Milligan, D W A ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL SHREWSBURY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endotracheal tube; Foot length

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CADAVER; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; FOOT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOTRACHEAL TUBE; NEWBORN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY WEIGHT; FOOT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRACHEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034938601     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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