Fast bedside measurement of blood count and C-reactive protein in newborns compared with conventional methods

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 58, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 951-957

  Papa, Fabrizio ^a   Rongioletti, M ^a   Majolini, M B ^a   Collegiani, V ^a   Vaccarella, C ^a   Notarmuzi, M L ^a   Cortesi, M ^a   Pasqualetti, P ^b   Cicchese, M ^a   Agostino, R ^a   Liumbruno, G M ^a  

^a SAN GIOVANNI CALIBITA FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anemia; C reactive protein; Hematology analyser; Neonatal infection; Point of care

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ANALYZER; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEDICAL DEVICE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN ANEMIA; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREMATURITY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

BLOOD CELL COUNT; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MALE; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84868560421     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7754/Clin.Lab.2011.110628     Document Type: Article

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