Sudden cardiac arrest in an intubated premature infant with cerebellar and brainstem injury: Is there a link?

Pediatrics

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1814-1817

  Chen, R Victoria ^a   Perlman, Jeffrey ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Cerebellar injury; Premature infant

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; PHENOBARBITAL; SURFACTANT;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TRACHEOTOMY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SUDDEN DEATH;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN;

EID: 33646835709     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-1992     Document Type: Article

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