Minimising neonatal brain injury: How research in the past five years has changed my clinical practice

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 261-265

  Levene, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; ETAMSYLATE; INDOMETACIN; PHENOBARBITAL;

ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOCAPNIA; LEUKOMALACIA; META ANALYSIS; NEONATOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIRTH INJURIES; BRAIN DISEASES; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHAMSYLATE; HUMANS; HYPOCAPNIA; INDOMETHACIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES; PHENOBARBITAL;

EID: 33947270570     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2005.086371     Document Type: Review

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