An Environmental Monitoring Device to Identify Potential Risks for Intraventricular Hemorrhage During Neonatal Transport of Preterm Infants

Purpose: To characterize the environment in both ground and aerial ambulances in an effort to identify and quantify the risk factors associated with intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) in preterm infants, with the goal of developing a device to mitigate this problem. Methods: A small, stand-alone ba...

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Main Author: Guevara, Carlos Ernesto
Other Authors: Mechanical Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Virginia Tech 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76889
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11182011-155728/