Critical Appraisal of Cardiac Risk Stratification before Elective Vascular Surgery

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 387-397

  Back, Martin R ^a   Schmacht, Dale C ^a   Bowser, Andrew N ^a   Stordahl, Norma ^a   Cuthbertson, David ^b   Johnson, Brad L ^a   Bandyk, Dennis F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA SURGERY; ARTERY SURGERY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR SURGERY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0344442741     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857440303700602     Document Type: Article

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