Ambulatory surgery for high risk patients - A contradiction in terms?

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, Supplement

Volumn 41, Issue 111, 1997, Pages 322-324

  White, P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESFLURANE; ISOFLURANE; PROPOFOL; PYROGEN;

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIVERING; THERMOREGULATION; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 0031300919     PISSN: 05152720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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