Dysphagia as a risk factor for sudden unexplained death in infancy

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 786-791

  Talbert, D G ^a  

^a QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM; WATER;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING; COUGHING; DYSPHAGIA; EPIGLOTTIS; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; INFANCY; LARYNX; PACIFIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUDDEN DEATH; SWALLOWING; VOMITING;

CYANOSIS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33745936780     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.04.028     Document Type: Article

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