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Doppler Assessment of the Cerebral Hemodynamics in Perinatal Asphyxia

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Doppler ultrasound offers the neonatologist the opportunity to monitor cerebral hemodynamics noninvasively. Since the pioneering work of Bada et al. in 1979 [3], Doppler ultrasound has been used for research into many physiological conditions in the neonate.

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Saliba, E., Laugier, J. (1993). Doppler Assessment of the Cerebral Hemodynamics in Perinatal Asphyxia. In: Haddad, J., Saliba, E. (eds) Perinatal Asphyxia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77896-4_10

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