Apparent life-threatening events: An update

Pediatrics in Review

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 361-369

  Fu, Linda Y ^a   Moon, Rachel Y ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CALCIUM; LACTIC ACID; POTASSIUM;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; APNEA; APPARENT LIFE THREATENING EVENT; ASPIRATION; BIRTH; BLUNT TRAUMA; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CYANOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL REFLUX; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOME MONITORING; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAGNESIUM BLOOD LEVEL; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENINGITIS; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VOLVULUS;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANTILE APPARENT LIFE-THREATENING EVENT; RISK FACTORS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 84864563505     PISSN: 01919601     EISSN: 15263347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/pir.33-8-361     Document Type: Review

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