RN First Assistants Expand Their Perioperative Role

AORN Journal

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 560-563

  Hlozek, Christopher C ^a,b   Zacharias, Walter M ^a,c   Mizener, Karl A ^a,c  

^a Ethicon Endo Surgery ^*

^b ETHICON INC   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; FIRST ASSISTANT; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PATIENT CARE; PERFUSION; RADIAL ARTERY; SURGERY; WOUND CLOSURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PERIOPERATIVE NURSING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; PERIOPERATIVE NURSING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIAL ARTERY; REOPERATION;

EID: 0032014396     PISSN: 00012092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-2092(06)62825-1     Document Type: Article

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