Initial experience with personal digital assistant-based reflectance photoplethysmograph for free tissue transfer monitoring

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 136-140

  Stack Jr , Brendan C ^a   Futran, Neal D ^b   Zang, Billy ^a   Scharf, John E ^c  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL COMPUTER; DONOR SITE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIA; MONITOR; PATIENT MONITORING; PERFUSION; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; TISSUE PERFUSION; ULTRASOUND;

COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEAD; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NECK; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042627799     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SAP.0000060183.42582.C0     Document Type: Article

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