Mid-arm circumference can be used to estimate children's weights

Resuscitation

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1105-1110

  Cattermole, G N ^a   Leung, P Y M ^b   Mak, P S K ^a   Graham, C A ^a   Rainer, T H ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

(MeSH) Pediatrics; Body weights and measures; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; MID ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77955842550     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.05.015     Document Type: Article

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