Fetal thermal dose considerations during the obstetrician's watch: Implications for the pediatrician's observations

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 135-143

  Miller, Morton W ^a   Church, Charles C ^b   Miller, Richard K ^a   Edwards, Marsh J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birth defects; Epidural; Fever; Hyperthermia; Labor; Thermal doses

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

CORE TEMPERATURE; DOSE CALCULATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FEVER; GESTATION PERIOD; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; LABOR; MICROCEPHALY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; OBSTETRICS; PEDIATRICIAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TERATOGENESIS; TERATOGENICITY; THERMAL EXPOSURE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; COHORT STUDIES; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; FEVER; GUINEA PIGS; HEAT; HEATING; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA;

EID: 36049029676     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20096     Document Type: Review

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