BODY WATER ESTIMATION IN THE NEWBORN USING TRITIATED WATER

Journal/Book: Reprinted from Archives of Disease in Childhood Vol. 37 No. 192 April 1962. 1962;

Abstract: From the Nuffield Department of Paediatric Surgery Institute of Child Health The Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormond Street London *A paper read at a meeting of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons in Stockholm September 1961. Summary A method of estimation of total body water content in the newborn baby is described. Sources of error in the method are discussed. The accuracy achieved is insufficient for the estimation of daily changes in body water content but by increasing the dose of tritiated water the method has a place for single estimations. ___MH

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