Consequences of meconium stained amniotic fluid: What does the evidence tell us?

Early Human Development

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 333-339

  Hutton, Eileen K ^a,b,c   Thorpe, Julia ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evidence based consequences; Meconium; Meconium stained amniotic fluid

Indexed keywords

ACIDOSIS; AMNION FLUID; ASPHYXIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MECONIUM; MECONIUM STAINED AMNIOTIC FLUID; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; OTITIS MEDIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SEIZURE; UMBILICUS; APGAR SCORE; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; FETUS; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SEIZURES; SEPSIS;

ACIDOSIS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; APGAR SCORE; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MECONIUM; MECONIUM ASPIRATION SYNDROME; OTITIS MEDIA; PREGNANCY; SEIZURES; SEPSIS;

EID: 84925224931     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2014.04.005     Document Type: Review

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