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Oxygen saturation trends in the first hour of life in healthy full-term neonates born at moderate altitude

Author(s) -

Hamed Habib

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

pakistan journal of medical sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 1682-024X

pISSN - 1681-715X

DOI - 10.12669/pjms.294.3848

Subject(s) - medicine , pulse oximetry , oxygen saturation , effects of high altitude on humans , hypoxemia , heart rate , gestational age , respiratory rate , hypoxia (environmental) , anesthesia , altitude (triangle) , blood pressure , oxygen , pregnancy , chemistry , genetics , organic chemistry , biology , anatomy , geometry , mathematics

Transition from a parallel circulation in utero to an in-series circulation immediately after birth is partly an oxygen-dependent process. Relative hypoxemia with increasing altitude above sea level exerts a certain degree of stress on oxygen-dependent metabolic processes throughout the body.

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