Under-recognition of alarms in a neonatal intensive care unit

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Brockmann, Pablo E ^a,b   Wiechers, Cornelia ^a   Pantalitschka, Tobias ^a   Diebold, Jessica ^a   Vagedes, Jan ^a,c   Poets, Christian F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c Filderklinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN APNEA; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NURSING STAFF; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXYGEN DESATURATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; VIDEORECORDING;

MONITORING; NEONATOLOGY; NURSING CARE;

APNEA; BRADYCARDIA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NURSES; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84886090879     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2012-303369     Document Type: Article

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