Intrapartum and postdelivery management of infants born to mothers with meconium-stained amniotic fluid: Evidence-based recommendations

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-42

  Velaphi, Sithembiso ^a   Vidyasagar, Dharmapuri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOINFUSION; AMNION FLUID; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DELIVERY ROOM; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FETUS HYPOXIA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INTRAPARTUM CARE; MECONIUM; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TOILET;

AMNION; AMNIOTIC FLUID; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MECONIUM; MECONIUM ASPIRATION SYNDROME; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCTION;

EID: 33644885435     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2005.11.014     Document Type: Review

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