Transporting newborns with transposition of the great arteries

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Woods, Patricia ^a,b   Browning Carmo, Kathryn ^a,b,c   Wall, Margaret ^a   Berry, Andrew ^a  

^a SYDNEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Sydney Children's Hospitals Network   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

newborn; perinatal care; retrieval; transposition of great vessels

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; PROSTAGLANDIN E1;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUSTRALIA; BRADYCARDIA; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS;

EID: 84872499302     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: 14401754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jpc.12066     Document Type: Article

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