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Practicability of fetal scalp blood sampling during labor using microtubes and a point-of-care (POC) lactate testing device: difficulty assessment, sampling time and failure rates

  • Philipp Reif EMAIL logo , Daniela Ulrich , Ioana Lakovschek , Carmen Tappauf , Uwe Lang and Wolfgang Schöll

Corresponding author: Philipp Reif, MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 14, 8036 Graz, Austria, Phone: +43 316 385 80053, Mobile: +43 699 11883089, Fax: +43 316 681835, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

We thank Nova Biomedical (Waltham, MA) for providing the StatStrip Lactate meter and strips.

Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

Financial support: None declared.

Employment or leadership: None declared.

Honorarium: None declared.

Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.

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Received: 2015-1-11
Accepted: 2015-2-17
Published Online: 2015-3-14
Published in Print: 2015-7-1

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