Perinatal transport: problems in neonatal intensive care capacity
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Audit of neonatal intensive care transport.
Although in utero transfer is the safest option,1 2 provided the mother's condition allows, many newborn infants are still transferred from their hospital of birth to another hospital to receive intensive care. There have been audits of the transfer of both adults34 and older children5 to intensive care units in the United Kingdom but there has been no published audit of the work of a neonatal ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1359-2998,1468-2052
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2003.028159