Meconium Stained Fluid: Approach to the Mother and the Baby

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 653-665

  Walsh, Michele C ^a,b   Fanaroff, Jonathan M ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; SURFACTANT;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AMNION FLUID; BABY; DELIVERY ROOM; DRUG MECHANISM; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HUMAN; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; MATERNAL CARE; MECONIUM; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NURSERY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; PEDIATRICIAN; PNEUMONIA; POSTNATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STAINING; VENTILATOR;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; MECONIUM ASPIRATION SYNDROME; NITRIC OXIDE; PREGNANCY; PULMONARY SURFACTANTS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; RISK FACTORS; SUCTION;

EID: 36549082382     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2007.10.005     Document Type: Review

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