A randomized clinical trial comparing immediate versus delayed clamping of the umbilical cord in preterm infants: Short-term clinical and laboratory endpoints

Transfusion

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 658-665

  Strauss, Ronald G ^a   Mock, Donald M ^b   Johnson, Karen J ^b   Cress, Gretchen A ^b   Burmeister, Leon F ^b   Zimmerman, M Bridget ^b   Bell, Edward F ^b   Rijhsinghani, Asha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BIOTINYLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; NEWBORN; PARENTAL CONSENT; PHOTOTHERAPY; PREMATURITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIME; UMBILICAL CORD CLAMPING;

CONSTRICTION; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; TIME FACTORS; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 41149133546     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01589.x     Document Type: Article

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