Whole-body protein turnover and nitrogen balance in young children at intakes of protein and energy in the region of maintenance.

Nitrogen balance and whole-body protein turnover were measured in children aged about one year taking diets which provided 1.7 or 0.7 g milk protein/kg/d at three levels of metabolizable energy, 80, 90 and 100 kcal/kg/d.

Continuous monitoring of arterial oxygen tension in infants: four years of experience with an intravascular oxygen electrode.

Two hundred eighty-two umbilical artery catheters with oxygen electrodes on their tips were passed into the aortas of 268 newborn infants with severe respiratory illnesses between 1974-1977; 254 (90%) of the electrodes recorded PaO2 satisfactorily for a mean of 66 hours; 212 (75%) electrodes were still functioning well when removed, because they were no longer clinically needed, after a mean of 87 hours. The 27 electrodes that failed to record PaO2 on insertion, 42 that failed later, and 25 that temporarily malfunctioned were examined after removal from the infants. A structural cause was found which accounted for the failure or malfunction of 43 electrodes.