Underwater birth: Missing the evidence or missing the point?

Pediatrics

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 972-973

  Bowden, Kelley ^a   Kessler, Dale ^a   Pinette, Mike ^a   Wilson, Elizabeth ^a  

^a MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELIVERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; WATER INTOXICATION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; BIRTH INJURIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DROWNING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; SAFETY; SEIZURES; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; WATER; WATER INTOXICATION;

EID: 0141959039     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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