Early assessment of the severity of asphyxia in term newborns using parameters of blood count

Interdisciplinary Toxicology

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 211-213

  Brucknerová, Ingrid ^a   Ujházy, Eduard ^b   Dubovický, Michal ^b   Mach, Mojmir ^b  

^a Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University and University Hospital Bratislava   (El Salvador)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

asphyxia; erythrocyte; hematocrit; hemoglobin; leukocyte; newborns; thrombocyte

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956299451     PISSN: 13376853     EISSN: 13379569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10102-010-0043-x     Document Type: Article

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