The effect of steroids on the clinical course and outcome of neonates with Meconium Aspiration Syndrome

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 8-12

  Tripathi, Sandeep ^a   Saili, Arvind ^a  

^a LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDESONIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; STEROID; VASOPRESSIN;

ARTICLE; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FUNGEMIA; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LENGTH OF STAY; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; MENINGITIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEBULIZATION; NEBULIZER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN THERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THRUSH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BUDESONIDE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MECONIUM ASPIRATION SYNDROME; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846795795     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fml018     Document Type: Article

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