Surgical and postoperative factors influencing short-term survival of horses following small intestinal resection: 92 Cases (1994-2001)

Equine Veterinary Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 450-454

  Morton, A J ^a   Blikslager, A T ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Horse; Jejunocaecostomy; Jejunojejunostomy; Postoperative ileus; Strangulating obstruction

Indexed keywords

PLASMA PROTEIN;

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVALUATION; HEART RATE; HORSE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; ILEUS; JEJUNOSTOMY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RECORD; MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REOPERATION; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANASTOMOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SMALL INTESTINE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036632826     PISSN: 04251644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2746/042516402776117700     Document Type: Article

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