RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Use of a continuously recording intravascular oxygen electrode in the newborn
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 853
OP 860
DO 10.1136/adc.49.11.853
VO 49
IS 11
A1 P. Goddard
A1 I. Keith
A1 H. Marcovitch
A1 N. R. C. Roberton
A1 P. Rolfe
A1 J. W. Scopes
YR 1974
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/49/11/853.abstract
AB The use of a continuously recording intravascular Po2 electrode is described. The electrode, based on the Galvanic principle, is built into the tip of a French gauge (FG) 5 umbilical arterial catheter. Its use has considerably improved the management of oxygen therapy in the seriously ill premature newborn infant and has done so with at least a 50% reduction in the amount of blood needed to be removed for gas analysis.