Prophylactic digitalization for thoracotomy: A reassessment

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 86-88

  Ritchie, A J ^a   Bowe, P ^a   Gibbons, J R P ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITALIS; DIGOXIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LUNG SURGERY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; DIGOXIN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGE; OXYGEN; PNEUMONECTOMY; POTASSIUM; PREMEDICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0025353080     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(90)90094-M     Document Type: Article

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