Oxygen-saturation targets in extremely preterm infants

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 1949-1950

  Carlo, Waldemar A ^a   Bell, Edward F ^b   Walsh, Michele C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACTANT;

BLINDNESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INCIDENCE; INFANT MORTALITY; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MEDICAL ETHICS; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PARENTAL CONSENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA;

EID: 84877745941     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1304827     Document Type: Letter

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