Transporting newborn infants with suspected duct dependent congenital heart disease on low-dose prostaglandin E1 without routine mechanical ventilation

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Browning Carmo, Kathryn A ^b   Barr, Peter ^a   West, Maureen ^b   Hopper, Neil W ^b   White, Jennifer P ^b   Badawi, Nadia ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b New South Wales Paediatric and Neonatal Emergency Transport Service (NETS)   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTAGLANDIN E1;

ACIDOSIS; APNEA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALPROSTADIL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEW SOUTH WALES; PERINATAL CARE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 33947207596     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.096305     Document Type: Article

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