Electrocardiographic monitoring in healthy young adult outpatients: Mandatory or optional?

Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 424-428

  Zabani, Ibrahim ^a   Vaghadia, Himat ^b,c   Chilvers, Colin R ^a   Merrick, Pamela M ^a  

^a VANCOUVER HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Faculty of Medicine   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HICCUP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTENSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0031929124     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03012577     Document Type: Article

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