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A Comparison of Transcutaneous Oxygen Tension with Oximetry in the Artificially Ventilated Newborn

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Pulse Oximetry

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Neonatal intensive care has been possible on a large scale since the advent of capillary blood gas measurements. Because of the difficulty in obtaining reliable arterial Po2 measurements from capillary blood, the invention and introduction of transcutaneous Po2 measurements was another important step. It began the era of non-invasive continuous blood gas monitoring which has been extended by the recent availability of transcutaneous Pco2 recording.

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  1. M. Landmesser
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  2. H. Pasterkamp
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  3. F. Tegtmeyer
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  1. Research Department of Anaesthetics, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PN, England

    James P. Payne MB, ChB, FFARCS, MD (Symposium Chairman, British Oxygen Professor of Anaesthetics and Director, Consultant Anaesthetist to the St. Peter’s Hospitals and The London Hospital) (Symposium Chairman, British Oxygen Professor of Anaesthetics and Director, Consultant Anaesthetist to the St. Peter’s Hospitals and The London Hospital)

  2. Department of Anesthesia, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, California, 94143, USA

    J. W. Severinghaus MD, FFARCS

  3. Anaesthetics Unit, The London Hospital Medical College, UK

    James P. Payne MB, ChB, FFARCS, MD (Symposium Chairman, British Oxygen Professor of Anaesthetics and Director, Consultant Anaesthetist to the St. Peter’s Hospitals and The London Hospital) (Symposium Chairman, British Oxygen Professor of Anaesthetics and Director, Consultant Anaesthetist to the St. Peter’s Hospitals and The London Hospital)

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Landmesser, M., Pasterkamp, H., Tegtmeyer, F., Fenner, A. (1986). A Comparison of Transcutaneous Oxygen Tension with Oximetry in the Artificially Ventilated Newborn. In: Payne, J.P., Severinghaus, J.W. (eds) Pulse Oximetry. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1423-9_13

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