Effect of tilting on oxygenation in newborn infants.
Open Access
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 63 (3) , 315-317
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.63.3.315
Abstract
Transcutaneous (tc) PO2 in newborn infants increased on head up tilting (median increase 0.5 kPa at term, 1.0 kPa preterm). Head down tilting was associated with an equivalent fall in tcPO2. There was no change in tcPCO2. Tilting of infants mechanically ventilated for respiratory distress syndrome or surgery produced no consistent change in PO2.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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