Role of spirometric and arterial gas data in predicting pulmonary complications after abdominal surgery

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1171-1176

  Fuso, L ^a   Cisternino, L ^b   Di Napoli, A ^a   Di Cosmo, V ^b   Tramaglino, L M ^a   Basso, S ^a   Spadaro, S ^a   Pistelli, R ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abdominal surgery; Pulmonary complications; Pulmonary function tests

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG COMPLICATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM RESECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 0034526697     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/rmed.2000.0946     Document Type: Article

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