Reducing the demand for admission to intensive care after major abdominal surgery by a change in anaesthetic practice and the use of remifentanil

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 111-119

  Park, G R ^a   Evans, T N ^a   Hutchins, J ^a   Borissov, B ^a   Gunning, K E ^a   Klinck, J R ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdominal; Anaesthesia; Early tracheal extubation; High dependency; Intensive care; Liver transplantation; Opioids; Remifentanil; Surgery

Indexed keywords

REMIFENTANIL;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTUBATION; FETUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; BED OCCUPANCY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COST SAVINGS; DRUG COSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PIPERIDINES; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RECOVERY ROOM; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033994802     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2346.2000.00618.x     Document Type: Article

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