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Non-invasive oxygen saturation monitoring in neonates

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Pulse oximetry is a valuable tool but one must not use it blindly. The practitioner must not forget basic assessment skills and be controlled by the machine, but must learn to control the machine available. This way one can ascertain “why” the infant is desaturating, the determine if there is a physiological or environmental cause for an infant’s desaturation.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Kathy Dziedzic &  D. Vidyasagar (Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Neonatology)

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Dziedzic, K., Vidyasagar, D. Non-invasive oxygen saturation monitoring in neonates. Indian J Pediatr 56, 599–605 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02722376

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