Intensive care unit management in liver transplant recipients: Beneficial effect on survival and preservation of quality of life

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 113-120

  Singh, Nina ^a,b   Gayowski, Timothy ^a   Wagener, Marilyn M ^a  

^a VA Healthcare VISN 4   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Intensive care unit; Liver transplants; Quality of life; Survival

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG INFILTRATE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030889125     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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