Intermittent monitoring of oxygen saturation in infants and children with acute bronchiolitis: Peekaboo pediatrics or good clinical care?

JAMA Pediatrics

Volumn 169, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 891-892

  Cunningham, Steve ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ASTHMA; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INFANT DISEASE; INTERMITTENT MONITORING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OXYGEN DESATURATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PARENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETER; PULSE OXIMETRY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; VIRAL BRONCHIOLITIS; LENGTH OF STAY; OXIMETRY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BRONCHIOLITIS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OXIMETRY;

EID: 84943417756     PISSN: 21686203     EISSN: 21686211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.1971     Document Type: Editorial

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