Is the sampling site along the umbilical artery significant?

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 172-175

  Perlman, Sharon ^a   Goldman, Ran D ^b   Maatuk, Hila ^c   Ron, Einat ^c   Shinwell, Eric ^d   Blickstein, Isaac ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c Brenner High School   (Israel)

^d KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Blood gases; Blood pH; Umbilical cord

Indexed keywords

ACID BASE BALANCE; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; HUMAN; NEWBORN; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL HYPOXIA; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0036986797     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000067887     Document Type: Article

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