Clinical and echocardiographic diagnoses disagree in patients with unexplained hemodynamic instability after cardiac surgery

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 778-783

  Wake, Pamela J ^a   Ali, Mohamed ^a   Carroll, Jo ^a   Siu, Samuel C ^a   Cheng, Davy C H ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DRUG THERAPY; HEART SURGERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGERY; SURGICAL PATIENT; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0034761619     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03016694     Document Type: Article

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