Cardiac asystole at birth: Is hypovolemic shock the cause?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 458-463

  Mercer, J ^a,b   Erickson Owens, D ^a,b   Skovgaard, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BICARBONATE; DOPAMINE; PHENOBARBITAL;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ASYSTOLE; BIRTH; BLEEDING; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CIRCULATION; CLAMP; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FOOD ASPIRATION; FOOD REGURGITATION; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INFLAMMATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION; PERINEUM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURE; SHOULDER DYSTOCIA; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOVOLEMIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; PREGNANCY; RESUSCITATION; SHOULDER DISLOCATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 60449094340     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.11.019     Document Type: Article

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