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Application of an Amplitude-integrated EEG Monitor (Cerebral Function Monitor) to Neonates

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Blue episodes in a neonate

Radhalakshmi Senthil¹, Scott Maskell, Benjamin Hartley

¹Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Neonatal Unit, Homerton Row, London, UK. radsenkar@gmail.com

Lancet (London, England)

|May 19, 2009

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