A retrospective analysis of the costs and benefits related to alterations in cardiac surgery from routine intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 824-827

  Fanshawe, Michael ^a   Ellis, Charles ^a   Habib, Sally ^a   Konstadt, Steven N ^a   Reich, David L ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0036784717     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/00000539-200210000-00007     Document Type: Article

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