Abstract
Alcohol swab cleansing and squeezing). This dummy procedure itself caused some increase in variability although this was not significant at the 5% level. There were similar significant increases in variability of the respiratory rate and O2 and CO2 tensions in the blood (P < 0.05) during the stab procedure. ∗Correspondence to: M. McIntosh, Dept. of Child Life and Health, University of Edinburgh, 17 Hatton Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1UW, UK. Submitted November 12, 1991; revised and accepted August 21, 1992. © Lippincott-Raven Publishers....