Oxytocin as a high alert medication: A multilayered challenge to the status quo

Birth

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 345-348

  Rooks, Judith P ^a  

^a American College of Nurse Midwives   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE; OXYTOCIN;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AUTHORITY; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DELIVERY; DRUG INFUSION; DYSTOCIA; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; ERROR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; LABOR; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MIDWIFE; MONITORING; MOTHER; NOTE; NURSE; OBSTETRICS; PATIENT SAFETY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSIBILITY; RISK; RISK REDUCTION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; UNITED STATES; UTERUS;

EID: 70450235144     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.2009.00365.x     Document Type: Note

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