Airborne concentrations of volatile organic compounds in neonatal incubators

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 534-540

  Prazad, P ^a   Cortes, D R ^b   Puppala, B L ^a,c   Donovan, R ^d   Kumar, S ^b   Gulati, A ^e  

^a Advocate Lutheran General Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b STAT Analysis Corporation   (United States)

^c Lutheran General Hospital   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^e MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,1,1 TRICHLOROETHANE; 1,1,2 TRICHLOROETHANE; 1,2 DIBROMOETHANE; 1,2 DICHLOROBENZENE; 1,2 DICHLOROETHANE; 1,2,4 TRICHLOROBENZENE; 1,2,4 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; 1,3 BUTADIENE; 1,3 DICHLOROBENZENE; 1,3,5 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; 1,4 DICHLOROBENZENE; 2 BUTANONE; 2 HEPTANONE; 2 HEXANONE; 4 METHYL 2 PENTANONE; BENZENE; BENZYL CHLORIDE; BROMOFORM; CARBON DISULFIDE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHLOROBENZENE; DIOXANE; METHYL BROMIDE; N BUTYL ACETATE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; TETRACHLOROETHANE; VINYL ACETATE; VINYLIDENE CHLORIDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMIDITY; INCUBATOR; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

ACRYLATES; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INCUBATORS, INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; KETONES; PLASTICS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 48749089180     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: 14765543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jp.2008.75     Document Type: Article

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