Oxygen - Elixir of life or Trojan horse? Part 1: Oxygen and neonatal resuscitation

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1107-1111

  Van Der Walt, Johan ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ANESTHESIST; APGAR SCORE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; NEWBORN; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; VASODILATATION;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN; PEDIATRICS; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 33750090351     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2006.02072.x     Document Type: Editorial

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