Oxygen therapy during neonatal resuscitation - Too little or too much?

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 507-509

  Sinha, Sunil ^a   Tin, Win ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; EDITORIAL; HYPEROXIA; NEWBORN CARE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; RESUSCITATION;

AIR; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0038389521     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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