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Simple test to distinguish between surgical and non-surgical pneumoperitoneum in ventilated neonates
P Vanhaesebrouck1, J G Leroy, C De Praeter
1Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
A simple and accurate method is described for rapid differentiation of surgical and nonsurgical pneumoperitoneum by measuring the partial pressure of oxygen in intraperitoneal air with a blood gas analyser. Results in five ventilated neonates in whom this distinction was not possible by clinical or radiographic means are presented.