Tocolytics: Do they actually work?

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 345, Issue 7879, 2012, Pages

  Alfirevic, Zarko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; ERYTHROMYCIN; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN INHIBITOR; RELAXIN; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

CEREBRAL PALSY; CESAREAN SECTION; EDITORIAL; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; GESTATION PERIOD; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INCOME; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LIVE BIRTH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLONGED PREGNANCY; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; UTERUS CONTRACTILITY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; TOCOLYSIS; TOCOLYTIC AGENTS;

EID: 84867809916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e6531     Document Type: Editorial

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