Fetal scalp sampling in labour

BMJ

Volumn 336, Issue 7656, 2008, Pages 1257-1258

  Neilson, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

AUSCULTATION; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDITORIAL; FETUS FUNCTION TEST; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS HYPOXIA; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; LABOR; MATERNAL BLOOD; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NETHERLANDS; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SCALP; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; WELLBEING;

FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL HYPOXIA; FETAL MONITORING; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LACTIC ACID; PREGNANCY; SCALP;

EID: 45249121782     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39567.480972.80     Document Type: Editorial

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