1. Reference percentiles for paired arterial and venous umbilical cord blood gases: An indirect nonparametric approach
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Laurent Desmurs, Sabine Zaepfel, Régine Cartier, Muriel Doret-Dion, Denis Monneret, Laurence Chardon, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société Sud-Est (MSHS Sud-Est), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Pascal Paoli (UPP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Health Service and Performance Research (HESPER), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon
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Male ,030213 general clinical medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Percentile ,Umbilical Veins ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Clinical Biochemistry ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Umbilical cord ,pCO2 ,Umbilical Arteries ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Oxygen saturation (medicine) ,Skewed data ,business.industry ,Nonparametric statistics ,General Medicine ,Carbon Dioxide ,Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ,Fetal Blood ,Oxygen ,% total haemoglobin ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Concomitant ,Cardiology ,Female ,business - Abstract
BACKGROUND Reference intervals for arterial and venous umbilical cord blood gas (UCBG) parameters are scarce, are mainly focused on pH, pO2, pCO2 and base deficit, and are usually assessed using parametric tests, despite a generally skewed data distribution. Here, the purpose is to determine reference percentiles for nine parameters of concomitant arterial and venous UCBG (CAV-UCBG) from neonates at birth, using nonparametric tests. METHODS Results of CAV-UCBG, assayed over a 4.5-year period, were extracted from a hospital laboratory database for pH, pCO2, pO2, oxygen saturation, concentration of total oxygen, total carbon dioxide, hydrogen carbonate, total haemoglobin, and acid-base excess. Exclusion criteria were: a venous-arterial pH difference
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- 2019
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