Fetal scalp blood measurements during labour-lactate or pH?

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 456-457

  Nordström, Lennart ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ACIDEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PH; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD SAMPLING; FETUS HYPOXIA; HUMAN; LABOR; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL HYPOXIA; FETUS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTIC ACID; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SCALP;

EID: 79955158106     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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